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Books like Frogs
Loved Frogs by Aristophanes? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from history, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Sapiens
A sweeping history of humanity from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present, arguing that what made humans uniquely powerful was the ability to create and believe in shared fictions — nations, religions, money — that allowed large-scale social cooperation impossible for other species. One of the bestselling non-fiction books of the 21st century.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Why some societies came to dominate others, argued from geography rather than race; sweeping and influential.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Great Migration of Black Americans told through three unforgettable lives; monumental narrative history.
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The uncommercial traveller
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
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The Innocents Abroad
Twain's letters about his steamship voyage of 1867.
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De l'esprit des lois
Nouv. éd., revue sur les meilleurs textes, suivie De la défense de l'esprit des lois par l'autheur
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Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:
I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scien
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.
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The great controversy
Short description of the plan of salvation and the final apocalyptic events of earth's history.
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A People's History of the United States
American history told from the bottom up; a deliberately partisan and hugely influential counter-narrative.