5 must-read china books like The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma

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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

By: Ian Buruma

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ian Buruma's spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures - a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, …

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1. A Handful of Dust

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life wher… read more

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2. Whisky Galore

By: Compton Mackenzie

3.00

Format: 12 pages,

It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. Wh… read more

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  • war
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3. The Sentry (Elvis Cole, #14; Joe Pike, #3)

By: Robert Crais

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face … read more

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4. Lost Japan

By: Alex Kerr , Bodhi Fishman

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Origina… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • japan
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5. 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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6. Chicas muertas

By: Selva Almada

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more

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7. Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

By: Eric Metaxas

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Timesbestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of … 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. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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10. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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13. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

By: Nadia Wassef

3.56

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled bet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

By: Desmond Shum

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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18. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

By: Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."

-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

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19. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • japan
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

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20. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

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21. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future

By: Ian Johnson

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
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22. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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23. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

By: Gwen Strauss

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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24. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
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25. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler

By: Tom Dunkel

4.42

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

By: Ian Buruma

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ian Buruma's spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures - a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, … read more

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  • asia
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  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • china
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28. The Drowned

By: John Banville

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmo… read more

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29. Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

By: Abbott Kahler

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An incredible true story of murder in a utopian community established on a remote Galápagos island … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
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30. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)

By: Ian Rankin

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more

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31. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

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