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Books like Sapiens
Loved Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from history, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
The best history writing tells a story. This list spans 1994–2010 and includes 2 marked as essential reading in history.
10 books · ranked
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1
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Great Migration of Black Americans told through three unforgettable lives; monumental narrative history.
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2
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Why some societies came to dominate others, argued from geography rather than race; sweeping and influential.
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3
Team of Rivals
How Lincoln governed by appointing his opponents; a masterful study of political leadership.
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4
1776
The year America's revolution nearly failed; intimate, propulsive popular history.
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5
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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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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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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8
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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9
Stalingrad
The brutal turning-point battle of the Second World War; definitive, vivid military history.
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10
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
De dochter van een Griekse dokter wordt tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog gescheiden van haar geliefde, een kapitein in het Italiaanse leger.