What to Read After The Looting Machine
Readers who loved The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Looting Machine is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Looting Machine
Thieves of State
Chimp and the River
The fortunes of Africa
The Challenge for Africa
I Didn’t Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation (Text Only)
Saviors and Survivors
Histories of the Hanged
Wonga Coup
Famine Crimes
City of Thorns
Dead aid
Rise of the Robots
Debt
King Leopold's ghost
The Undoing Project
Why Nations Fail
The Signal and the Noise
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Zealot
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
1491
The Sixth Extinction
What Is the What
Homegoing