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Books like Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières? 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
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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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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Stalingrad
The brutal turning-point battle of the Second World War; definitive, vivid military history.
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Ali Pacha
The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made
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Urbain Grandier
On June 2, 1630, Father Urbain Grandier, the parish priest of St.-Pierre-du-Marche of Loudun, France, was accused of witchcraft by a group of Ursuline nuns. Grandier, a politically-influential priest
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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.
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Martin Guerre
A man capitalizes on his remarkable resemblance to another man to steal the other's life and identity. [Celebrated Crimes is an 8-volume collection of 18 essays by Alexandre Dumas. Each essay is based
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Suite française
Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus
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Team of Rivals
How Lincoln governed by appointing his opponents; a masterful study of political leadership.