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Books like History of the Wars
Loved History of the Wars by Procopius? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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Consider the Lobster
Restless, footnote-laden essays on everything from tennis to ethics; brilliant and exhausting in the best way.
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Men Explain Things to Me
The essay collection that helped popularise a now-famous idea; sharp feminist criticism.
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Feel Free
Wide-ranging essays on culture, books and life; smart, generous and curious.
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A Grief Observed
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the mid
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
In this exceptional work, Berkeley makes the striking claim that physical things consist of nothing but ideas and therefore do not exist outside the mind. This claim establishes him as the founder of
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A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is ann
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
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Adventures in Contentment
This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I