15 Best nonfiction books like A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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2. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • war
  • audiobook
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3. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • audiobook
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4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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7. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • israel
  • politics
  • war
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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9. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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10. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh

11. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • history
  • israel
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Tahir Hamut Izgil's Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • history
  • israel
  • politics
  • war
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • israel
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • politics
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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16. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

Similar categories in Ahed Tamimi's They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • israel
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

17. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

18. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed

19. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance

By: Azam Ahmed

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more

Similar categories in Azam Ahmed's Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Złota klatka? O kobietach w Szwajcarii by Agnieszka Kamińska

20. Złota klatka? O kobietach w Szwajcarii

By: Agnieszka Kamińska

3.92

Format: None pages, None

Żyłam w raju, dopóki nie zostałam matką. Co druga kobieta w niemieckojęzycznej części Szwajcarii… read more

Similar categories in Agnieszka Kamińska's Złota klatka? O kobietach w Szwajcarii book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline A. Jones

21. No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era

By: Jacqueline A. Jones

4.02

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteen… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline A. Jones's No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era book and Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.37

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3.79

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4.54

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4.22

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3.75

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3.79

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