8 best-selling politics books like Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge

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Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

By: Gary Younge

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Younge’s writing is chilling, urgent and profound.” —The Root “An outstanding journalist and ch…

If you liked the politics plot in Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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2. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

By: Sally Hayden

4.48

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • nonfiction
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3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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4. 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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5. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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6. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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7. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • politics
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8. 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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9. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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11. The Startup Wife

By: Tahmima Anam

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn… read more

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12. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

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  • race
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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13. Burntcoat

By: Sarah Hall

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying novel of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a de… read more

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"I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar."

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

"I did not contact my father. He had another family; he was a stranger. I'd been raised, capably and neglectfully, by a borrowed woman and her shadow. I lay on Naomi's bed in the empty cottage, comfor…"

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

"There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds ce…"

-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

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14. The Animals at Lockwood Manor

By: Jane Healey

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Ca… read more

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15. Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

By: Hilary Mantel

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestsel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

By: Otegha Uwagba

4.58

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, w… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. 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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19. Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

By: Leanne McCormick

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

By: Gary Younge

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Younge’s writing is chilling, urgent and profound.” —The Root “An outstanding journalist and ch… read more

Similar categories in Gary Younge's Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter book and Gary Younge's Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
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21. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

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3.79

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Simon Winder

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Laura Cumming

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