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Books like The uncommercial traveller
Loved The uncommercial traveller by Charles Dickens? 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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Frogs
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so
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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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Clouds
The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department presents Aristophanes' "The Clouds," translated by William Arrowsmith, directed by Leo Brady, choral interpretation by Josephine McGarry
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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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Medea
"Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to ac