13 best-selling nonfiction books like Private Eye by Adam Macqueen

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Private Eye

By: Adam Macqueen

4.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Private The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain’s first, most success…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Private Eye by Adam Macqueen , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Rumpole of the Bailey

By: John Mortimer

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and … read more

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2. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

3. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

By: Susanna Clarke , Charles Vess

1.80

Format: 76 pages,

Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norr… read more

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4. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by an eccentric old man - A woman's love, t… read more

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5. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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6. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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7. Letter from America, 1946-2004

By: Alistair Cooke

3.66

Format: 32 pages,

For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the w… read more

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8. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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10. How to Kill Men and Get Away with It

By: Katy Brent

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. He was following me. That guy from the nightclub w… read more

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"Maybe disemboweling a sex offender is what I need to cure this particular hangover."

-Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away with It

"I absolutely refuse to be around anyone who thinks they're better than me because a) who has the time to waste hanging out with anyone you just will never get along with and b) no one is better than …"

-Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away with It

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11. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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12. Insomnia

By: Sarah Pinborough

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averell … read more

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"Everything feels wrong at night. Pieces out of place in my head. No straight edges in the jigsaw to anchor me."

-Sarah Pinborough, Insomnia

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13. Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By: Laurence Rees

4.53

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
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15. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

By: Michael Cragg

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

By: Robert Hardman

4.33

Format: 690 pages, Hardcover

The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer. As seen on Good Morn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

By: Douglas Wolk

4.01

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revela… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If he does find himself back in the mountain of Marvels, or if he never leaves it, I hope he finds its glorious imaginary world changing all the time, keeping pace with the real one in which he lives…"

-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

"As you explore the Marvel story, it becomes another world you can call your own, one that's constantly expanding and full of unfinished wonders. You can no more exhaust its possibilities than the rea…"

-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

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19. Vladimir

By: Julia May Jonas

3.44

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more

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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

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20. Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II

By: Tracy Borman

4.30

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King H… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England by Sebastian Payne

21. Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

By: Sebastian Payne

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Broken Heartlands is a political road trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others

By: Jon Sopel

4.29

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

'26 February, White House Briefing Room The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Sudd… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick

23. One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage

By: Michael Crick

4.11

Format: 400 pages, ebook

'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A superb piece of thorough journa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Private Eye

By: Adam Macqueen

4.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Private The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain’s first, most success… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
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25. Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook

By: Phil Hammond

4.21

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Throughout the * crisis, the fortnightly columns of Private Eye’s medical correspondent ‘MD’, aka N… read more

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6 Top adult books like Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

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