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Books like The Everlasting Man

Loved The Everlasting Man by Gilbert Keith Chesterton? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from history, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel

    Jared Diamond · 1997 · History

    Why some societies came to dominate others, argued from geography rather than race; sweeping and influential.

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    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · History

    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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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 · History

    The Great Migration of Black Americans told through three unforgettable lives; monumental narrative history.

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    No more parades

    Ford Madox Ford · 1925 · History

    Second book in the "Parade's End" series about the Tietjens family and WWI.

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    A man could stand up

    Ford Madox Ford · 1926 · History

    "Surrounded by the jubilation of Armistice Day, Valentine Wannop receives a telephone call which brings alarming news of her dear friend Christopher Tietjens. For whilst she strains to hear against th

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    Some Do Not ..

    Ford Madox Ford · 1924 · History

    Christopher Tietjens, quietly preoccupied with his disastrous marriage to the beautiful, faithless Sylvia, takes a diverting golfing weekend in the country at the suggestion of his friend Macmaster. T

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    Darkwater; voices from within the veil

    W. E. B. Du Bois · 1920 · History

    In The Souls of Black Folk the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois introduced the concept of the “veil,” a separation of the inner lives of black Americans from their white counterparts. Darkwater: Voices fr

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    Max Beckmann

    Max Beckmann · 1931 · History

    "This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the rol

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    Ten Days That Shook the World

    John Reed · 1919 · History

    Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed presented a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Reed followed many o

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    The Economic Consequences of the Peace

    John Maynard Keynes · 1919 · History

    Before becoming one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated economists, John Maynard Keynes served as a financial representative for the British Treasury at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to negot

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