Books like Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
If you liked Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Because shares tags: history, science, anthropology.
Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the…
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The Prince
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…
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John Adams
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.
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Between the World and Me
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Because shares tags: science, history.
Bryson asks how we know what we know, from atoms to continents, with humor and awe.
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A Brief History of Time
Because shares tags: science, nonfiction.
Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Because shares tags: nonfiction, science.
The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951.
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The Devil in the White City
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.
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Unbroken
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
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Night
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the…
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