10 Top nonfiction books like Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling

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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War

By: Sarah Watling

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An account of extraordinary artists and activists whose determination to live - and to create - wit…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Second Class Citizen

By: Buchi Emecheta

4.09

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."

-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"

-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"

-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

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2. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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3. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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5. La colmena

By: Camilo José Cela

3.89

Format: 575 pages,

En el Madrid de la posguerra, un bullicioso enjambre humano se afana en comer caliente, esquivar el… read more

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6. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • war
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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7. España: A Brief History of Spain

By: Giles Tremlett

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric … read more

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  • spain
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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9. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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10. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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11. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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12. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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13. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • war
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14. Yeguas exhaustas

By: Bibiana Collado Cabrera

4.18

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Una madre, con los dedos rígidos de triar naranjas en un almacén y limpiar pisos de vacaciones de o… read more

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  • feminism
  • spain
"El autoodio, más o menos matizado, fue nuestra gran herencia"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Como todos sabéis, la educación femenina es esencialmente masoquista"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Probablemente uno de los motivos por los que fui una niña lectora era porque tenía que llenar todas las horas en que mi madre trabajaba"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Crecer consistió en ir entendiendo los motivos por los que mi madre casi siempre estaba seria y triste. El principal de ellos era sencillo, sencillo y apabullante: estaba cansada. No cansada metafóri…"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

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15. Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

He violated her past and haunts her present. Now he's threatening their future. She breathes deep… read more

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16. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
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17. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

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18. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

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19. The Talented Mrs Greenway

By: Tea Cooper

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more

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20. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

By: Ilan Pappé

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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21. The Rush

By: Michelle Prak

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting psychological thriller—perfect for fans of Jane Harper’s The Survivors and Erica F… read more

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22. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

By: Anne Sebba

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehman

By: Harriet Baker

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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24. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

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25. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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27. Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War

By: Sarah Watling

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An account of extraordinary artists and activists whose determination to live - and to create - wit… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Watling's Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War book and Sarah Watling's Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War

  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • spain
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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28. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

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29. Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

By: Paul Preston

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new his… read more

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  • spain
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

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Giles Tremlett

4.00

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Anna Funder

4.13

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Ilan Pappé

4.35

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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999

Misha Glenny

4.09

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

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Calder Walton

4.30

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Katja Hoyer

4.17

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