6 Best nonfiction books like The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud by Saïd K. Aburish

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The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

By: Saïd K. Aburish

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This explosive examination of the Saud dynasty, whose greed and corruption have brought Saudi Arabi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud by Saïd K. Aburish , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By: Antony Beevor

3.91

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 book and Saïd K. Aburish's The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

By: Martin Meredith

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically in the fifty years since the independence era beg… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Unconscious Civilization

By: John Ralston Saul

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this intellectual tour de force, Saul argues that the West now toils unconsciously in the grip o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

By: Ann Rule

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murdere… read more

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6. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more

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7. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

By: Yeonmi Park , Maryanne Vollers

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually m… read more

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8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By: Ken Kesey

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, … read more

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9. The Fry Chronicles

By: Stephen Fry

3.84

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fa… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles book and Saïd K. Aburish's The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

  • nonfiction
"Mow the fuckers down."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

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10. Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.13

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more

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"In dreams begins responsiblities."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I don’t know what it means to live."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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11. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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12. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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13. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

Similar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita book and Saïd K. Aburish's The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

14. Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh , None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more

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15. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2) book and Saïd K. Aburish's The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

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16. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange book and Saïd K. Aburish's The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud

By: Saïd K. Aburish

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This explosive examination of the Saud dynasty, whose greed and corruption have brought Saudi Arabi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

5 must-read history books like The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud by Saïd K. Aburish

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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Antony Beevor

3.91

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Martin Meredith

3.91

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The Unconscious Civilization

John Ralston Saul

4.43

Transform Your Habits

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Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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Transform Your Habits

For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

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Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

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Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

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Martha Wells

4.15

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