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Books like The eyes of Asia

Loved The eyes of Asia by Rudyard Kipling? 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

    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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    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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    The world crisis, 1911-1918

    Winston S. Churchill · 1915 · History

    'A chronicle of World War I recounts the major campaigns, outlines the strategies forged by the generals, and details the beginnings of modern warfare. "Churchill was alive to his task with every nerv

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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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    The Outline of History

    H. G. Wells · 1919 · History

    Ben shu shang su ren lei wen ming de kai duan, xia zhi di er ci shi jie da zhan . jiang gu ai ji, gu xi la, gu luo ma, ying guo, mei guo, fa guo deng chao ji da guo de qi luo xing shuai you tiao bu we

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    The Scarlet Plague

    Jack London · 1910 · History

    It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows 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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    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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