The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
By: Matthew Longo
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. In August 1989, a grou…
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1. The Radetzky March
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more
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2. A Very British Coup
By: Chris Mullin
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Harry Perkins has led the Labour Party to a stunning election victory. His manifesto included publi… read more
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- politics
3. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
6. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
8. The Spoiled Heart
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more
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- audiobook
9. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
10. Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
By: Giles Milton
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the af… read more
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- history
- historical
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- germany
- nonfiction
11. 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
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
14. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
By: Matthew Longo
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. In August 1989, a grou… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
- activism
- audiobook
16. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- historical
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- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
17. 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
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. White Rose
By: Kip Wilson
3.97
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous and timely novel based on the incredible story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college … read more
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- historical
"I already know the idyll of my childhood is fading away, stomped flat by something that feels like doom."-Kip Wilson, White Rose
"I close my eyes and pray that the world will somehow change. But I know it isn't going to change on its own, so I know I must pray for the courage to bring it about."-Kip Wilson, White Rose
"We amble away from the city, away from all angst, into the heart of a fairy-tale forest that reminds me how very lucky we are to live and breathe on this great Earth flourishing with wonder."-Kip Wilson, White Rose
19. 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
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- historical
- 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
20. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
21. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
23. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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- audiobook
24. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
25. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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- historical
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
27. An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
By: Matthew Stewart
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first Ame… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
28. 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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- politics
- germany
- history
- nonfiction
29. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- audiobook
30. If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton
By: Barbara Winton
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
There are around 6000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton. They are th… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
31. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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