10 Top politics books like Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig, Norbert Both

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Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime

By: Jan Willem Honig , Norbert Both

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

"A chilling testimony to the evil that executed--and the bungling that coud not pevent--an 'ethnic …

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1. A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more

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"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

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2. Kaputt

By: Curzio Malaparte , Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. … read more

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  • war
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3. The Fall of Yugoslavia

By: Misha Glenny

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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4. Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more

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5. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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7. Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime

By: Jan Willem Honig , Norbert Both

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

"A chilling testimony to the evil that executed--and the bungling that coud not pevent--an 'ethnic … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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8. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

9. Shah of Shahs

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Shah of ShahsKapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear… read more

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10. The Bonfire of the Vanities

By: Tom Wolfe

3.90

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more

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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

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11. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

12. Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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15. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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16. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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17. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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18. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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19. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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20. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

21. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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23. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

By: Ronan Farrow

4.40

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."

-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"

-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

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24. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

By: Craig Whitlock

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"

-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"

-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

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25. Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii

By: Małgorzata Rejmer

4.55

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Błoto słodsze niż miód to opowieść o kraju udręczonym terrorem Envera Hoxhy, dyktatora, który po ze… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bo partia znaczyła więcej niż Bóg, Bóg nie istniał. A nawet jeśli istniał, to był wszechmocny tylko w teorii, a patia była wszechmocna w praktyce. Bóg nie potrafił zniszczyć partii, ale partia potraf…"

-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii

"Cierpieć w stopniu znikomym to jakby nie cierpieć wcale, to właściwie poniekąd cieszyć się ze śmierci – zaleca się zatem kilka lat przymusowego odosobnienia, by osobnik reakcyjny mógł w spokoju przem…"

-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii

"Albański komunizm był jak twierdza, z której murów codziennie odpadało kilka kamieni. Albo jak podupadła drewniana chałupa z przegniłym dachem, pleśnią na ścianach i zalanymi fundamentami, która, o d…"

-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii

"Pewnego razu zdumieni mieszkańcy Szkodry ujrzeli przy głównej ulicy nowy, zupełnie niezwykły sklep, pełen słodyczy, owoców i od lat niewidzianych smakołyków. Zaraz zebrał się tłum, ale na rozkaz poli…"

-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii

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26. The God Desire

By: David Baddiel

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

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27. Nightcrawling

By: Leila Mottley

3.98

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically … read more

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"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

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28. The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.96

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Com… read more

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"Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!"

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks meant something different when we returned to them later, leavened by life."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don’t know whether to laugh or cry."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

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