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Books like The End of Eternity

Loved The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov? 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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    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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    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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    Tristes Tropiques

    Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 · History

    Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Levi-Strauss's groundbreaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a c

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    Emil Nolde

    Emil Nolde · 1958 · History

    The book, its title a reference to a characterization that his artist friend Paul Klee bestowed on Nolde, is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Emil Nolde' at Zentrum Paul Klee and includes,

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    The Caine mutiny

    Herman Wouk · 1951 · History

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial

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    The Guns of August

    Barbara Tuchman · 1962 · History

    How Europe stumbled into the First World War over a few weeks; narrative history at its most gripping.

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    The Age of Revolution

    Eric Hobsbawm · 1962 · History

    The Age of Revolution: Europe: 1789–1848 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1962. It is the first in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), followed by The

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    The Moon is Down

    John Steinbeck · 1942 · History

    Also contained in: - [The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23165W/The_Grapes_of_Wrath_The_Moon_is_Down_Cannery

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    Meḿoires de guerre

    Charles de Gaulle · 1940 · History

    Originally published in three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all the personal writings by one of this century's most prominent generals and statesmen

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