19 best-selling nonfiction books like Broke: Fixing Britain’s poverty crisis by Tom Clark

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Broke: Fixing Britain’s poverty crisis

By: Tom Clark

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types …

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1. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. NW

By: Zadie Smith

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more

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4. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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5. Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

By: Andrew Clapham

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing… read more

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6. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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7. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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8. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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9. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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10. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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11. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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12. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. Weasels in the Attic

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more

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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic

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14. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Unsettled Ground

By: Claire Fuller

3.78

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more

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16. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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18. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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19. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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22. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

23. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."

-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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24. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

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27. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

By: Kate Manne

4.21

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理,而应该理解成父权制(patriarchy)在“执法"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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28. Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

By: Nick Bano

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A radical new intervention into the housing debate in the UK, and what we can do about it Why do l… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton

29. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing

By: John Boughton

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back

By: Torsten Bell

4.37

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Broke: Fixing Britain’s poverty crisis

By: Tom Clark

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

15 Best politics books like Broke: Fixing Britain’s poverty crisis by Tom Clark

Transform Your Habits

Poverty Safari

Darren McGarvey

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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