17 best-selling nonfiction books like They by Sarfraz Manzoor

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They

By: Sarfraz Manzoor

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a hopeful vision for change. …

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1. Mrs de Winter

By: Susan Hill

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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2. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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3. The Owl Always Hunts At Night

By: None

3.52

Format: 288 pages,

When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond. But what they find at the scene … read more

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  • audiobook

4. Them: Adventures with Extremists

By: Jon Ronson

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more

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5. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

By: Steven Pinker

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more

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6. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By: Amy Chua

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme … read more

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7. Pyre

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

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8. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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9. How the Dead Speak (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #11)

By: Val McDermid

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When human remains are discovered in the grounds of an old convent, it quickly becomes clear that s… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. 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
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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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12. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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13. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

By: Will Storr

4.14

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"

-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

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16. A Song of Me and You

By: Mike Gayle

3.95

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. A Passage North

By: Anuk Arudpragasam

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more

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  • audiobook
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"

-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

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19. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well

By: Tim Spector

4.27

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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21. 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
  • audiobook
"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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22. How to Stand Up to a Dictator

By: Maria Ressa

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Cecily

By: Annie Garthwaite

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Rebellion?" The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
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24. Mercia's Take

By: Daniel Wiles

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

'A brilliant debut' Guardian 1870s, the Black Country. Michael is a miner. But it's no life f… read more

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25. Nine Quarters of Jerusalem

By: Matthew Teller

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old Ci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

By: Gideon Rachman

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new national… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."

-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

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27. Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1)

By: Kia Abdullah

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Victim: Jodie Wolfe, a physically flawed 16-year-old girl accuses four boys in her class of som… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

By: John McManus

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An intimate portrait of life in one of the world's richest nations ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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29. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World

By: Dom Joly

3.69

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. They

By: Sarfraz Manzoor

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a hopeful vision for change. … read more

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  • race
  • islam
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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31. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • audiobook
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

6 Best sociology books like They by Sarfraz Manzoor

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it

Will Storr

4.14

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18 best-selling audiobook books like Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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