If you liked
Books like Medea
Loved Medea by Euripides? 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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Hiroshima
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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5
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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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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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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A People's History of the United States
American history told from the bottom up; a deliberately partisan and hugely influential counter-narrative.
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The Guns of August
How Europe stumbled into the First World War over a few weeks; narrative history at its most gripping.
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10
The Devil in the White City
A world's fair and a serial killer in 1890s Chicago, braided together; history that reads like a thriller.