22 best-selling audiobook books like How to Build an Aircraft Carrier by Chris Terrill

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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier

By: Chris Terrill

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sover…

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1. The Korean War

By: Max Hastings

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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2. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • audiobook

3. The List: A Novella (Slough House, #2.5)

By: Mick Herron

3.00

Format: 282 pages, ebook

Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. De… read more

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4. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

By: James Holland

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more

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5. In the Distance

By: Hernan Diaz

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more

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6. The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)

By: M.W. Craven

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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8. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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9. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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  • audiobook
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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10. London Rules (Slough House, #5)

By: Mick Herron

4.34

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more

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  • audiobook
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

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11. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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  • audiobook
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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12. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

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  • audiobook
"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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13. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Curator (Washington Poe, #3)

By: M.W. Craven

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange mess… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Dead Ground (Washington Poe, #4)

By: M.W. Craven

4.36

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated crof… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins

16. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline Elkins

4.26

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm

By: John Nichol

4.46

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam by Simon Webb

18. The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam

By: Simon Webb

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Explains the role of the newly independent United States in putting an end to the trade in European… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dead Man’s Grave (DS Max Craigie, #1) by Neil Lancaster

19. Dead Man’s Grave (DS Max Craigie, #1)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

This grave can never be opened. The head of Scotland’s most powerful crime family is brutally murd… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. British Rail

By: Christian Wolmar

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from "the greatest expert on British trains" Chr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner by Mike Bannister

21. Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner

By: Mike Bannister

4.54

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

October 24th 2023 will mark 20 years since Concorde disappeared from our skies. Yet still Mike Bann… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Typhoon

By: Mike Sutton

4.40

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Greatest Raid: St. Nazaire, 1942

By: Giles Whittell

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of one of the most desperately heroic missions launched during World War Two… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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  • audiobook
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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26. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • audiobook
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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27. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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  • audiobook
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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28. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

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  • audiobook
"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

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29. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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  • audiobook
"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

Cover of How to Build an Aircraft Carrier by Chris Terrill

30. How to Build an Aircraft Carrier

By: Chris Terrill

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sover… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4) by Stephen Fry

31. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

By: Stephen Fry

4.42

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

14 must-read nonfiction books like How to Build an Aircraft Carrier by Chris Terrill

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Max Hastings

3.75

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The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

James Holland

4.33

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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David de Jong

4.21

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John Le Carré

3.94

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Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Michael Connelly

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