25 Best nonfiction books like Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man by Nick Davies

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Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

By: Nick Davies

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on the phone-hacking scandal from the journalist who broke the biggest story of…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man by Nick Davies , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. The Wizard of Lies

By: Diana B. Henriques

3.77

Format: None pages,

The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • business
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2. Turning Forty

By: Mike Gayle

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

How to turn forty: 1. Set yourself a personal challenge. 2. Clear wardrobe of all age-inappropriate… read more

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3. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

4. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
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5. Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

By: Nick Davies

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on the phone-hacking scandal from the journalist who broke the biggest story of… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business

6. Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff

By: Erin Arvedlund

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the headlines about Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty to running a $65 billion Ponzi s… read more

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7. The Dog

By: Joseph O'Neill

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

***A NEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK*** ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** ***PWs Best of th… read more

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8. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

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9. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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10. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Cover of Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl

11. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. 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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13. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Buchanan's Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road book and Nick Davies's Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough

14. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
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15. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

By: Billy Connolly

4.42

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more

Similar categories in Billy Connolly's Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography book and Nick Davies's Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

  • nonfiction
"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."

-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

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16. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

Similar categories in Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller book and Nick Davies's Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

  • crime
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17. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
Cover of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild

18. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

By: Mike Rothschild

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

19. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
Cover of Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John  Preston

20. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
Cover of Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom         Wright

21. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

By: Tom Wright

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

22. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Us Three

By: Ruth Jones

4.04

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A touching celebration of the beauty and endurance of fem… read more

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24. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

By: Mike Isaac

4.14

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
  • business
Cover of Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. by Robert Hardman

25. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

By: Robert Hardman

3.92

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more

Similar categories in Robert Hardman's Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. book and Nick Davies's Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

  • nonfiction
  • history
"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."

-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

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26. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

By: Omid Scobie

3.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

Cover of The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty by Michael  Wolff

27. The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty

By: Michael Wolff

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
Cover of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew  Campbell

28. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • business
Cover of A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House by Jon Sopel

29. A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House

By: Jon Sopel

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

30. How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more

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"Burial is just another recipe"

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

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31. A Search for Belonging

By: Michael Fuller

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Michael Fuller had an idyllic childhood growing up in care in Surrey, looked after by Margaret who … read more

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  • politics
  • crime
  • history
  • nonfiction

24 must-read history books like Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man by Nick Davies

Transform Your Habits

The Wizard of Lies

Diana B. Henriques

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with the World's Most Powerful Man

Nick Davies

3.98

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20 must-read audiobook books like Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

Transform Your Habits

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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