Books like John Adams
If you liked John Adams by David McCullough, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Unbroken
Because shares tags: nonfiction, biography, history.
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
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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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Spare
Because shares tags: biography, nonfiction.
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…
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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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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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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Because shares tags: nonfiction, biography.
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
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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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Into the Wild
Because shares tags: nonfiction, biography.
Jon Krakauer traces Chris McCandless from Emory graduation to an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in 1992, asking what drove him to seek…
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Becoming
Because shares tags: biography, nonfiction.
Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir…
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Steve Jobs
Because shares tags: biography, nonfiction.
Walter Isaacson's authorized Steve Jobs: forty interviews covering the garage, the 1985 ouster, Pixar, and the return that made the iPhone.
