14 best-selling biography books like Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O'Doherty

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Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life

By: Malachi O'Doherty

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Loathed, loved, terrorist to some, brilliant political strategist to others - what do we make of Ge…

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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 Ginger Man

By: J.P. Donleavy

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is … read more

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  • ireland
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3. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • history
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4. Killing Rage

By: Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • ireland
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5. Voices From The Grave

By: Ed Moloney

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Ed Moloney's 'Voices From The Grave' is the best-informed account yet written of the IRA's evolutio… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • ireland
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6. The Butcher Boy

By: Patrick McCabe

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more

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  • ireland
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7. Money

By: Martin Amis

3.69

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more

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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"

-Martin Amis, Money

8. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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9. Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

By: Will Storr

3.66

Format: 32 pages,

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10. Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs

By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly , Paul Howard

0.00

Format: 24 pages,

My friend, Fionn, was being held hostage in, I don't know, Unganga Nanga, and the Government was re… read more

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11. 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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12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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13. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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14. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

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  • history
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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15. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

16. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

17. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • ireland
Cover of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope

18. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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19. Camino Royale

By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

4.41

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The Number 1 Bestseller!'The name's O'Carroll-Kelly. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.'As the great James Bond … read more

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20. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • biography
  • ireland
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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21. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • biography
  • ireland
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22. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

By: Ryan Holiday

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more

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  • history
  • biography
"When good men come to bad ends,"

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

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23. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

By: Aoife Moore

3.82

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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24. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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  • history
  • biography
Cover of Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe

25. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • ireland
Cover of The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money by Jennifer O'Leary

26. The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money

By: Jennifer O'Leary

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe and was, for… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • ireland
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27. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place

By: Martin Doyle

4.31

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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28. Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland

By: Peter Taylor

4.40

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gri… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
Cover of One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn

29. One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA

By: Daniel Finn

3.94

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

A history of “the Troubles”: the radical politics of RepublicanismThe conflict in Northern Ireland … read more

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  • history
  • ireland
Cover of Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O'Doherty

30. Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life

By: Malachi O'Doherty

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Loathed, loved, terrorist to some, brilliant political strategist to others - what do we make of Ge… read more

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  • biography
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31. Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle

By: Shane Ross

3.42

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first … read more

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  • ireland

19 Top history books like Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O'Doherty

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Killing Rage

Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Voices From The Grave

Ed Moloney

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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24 must-read history books like Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor

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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

Peter Ackroyd

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Killing Rage

Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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