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Books like Guts & Glory: The Vikings

What to read after Guts & Glory: The Vikings by Ben Thompson: 24 titles sharing themes of Exploration & Discovery, Adventure & Adventurers, Ancient, and Europe, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Exploration & Discovery Adventure & Adventurers Ancient Europe Juvenile Nonfiction Historical Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to Guts & Glory: The Vikings

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Guts & Glory: The Vikings.

Christopher Newport Jamestown Explorer

Sharon K. Solomon

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

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Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

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Peggy Caravantes

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Little Naturalists: The Adventures of John Muir

Kate Coombs

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Explorers Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventurers

Nellie Huang

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

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Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

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David West

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Athena The Story of a Goddess

Imogen Greenberg

Themes: Adventure & Adventurers • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

Guts & Glory: World War II

Ben Thompson

Themes: Adventure & Adventurers • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

#10

The Indestructible Tom Crean

Jennifer Thermes

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#11

The Shackleton Expedition

Jil Fine

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#12

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Mick Manning

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#13

Shackleton’s Boat Journey

Frank Arthur Worsley

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#14

Race to the Bottom of the Earth Surviving Antarctica

Rebecca E. F. Barone

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#15

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Catherine Daly

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Europe

#16

Shackleton Antarctic Odyssey

Nick Bertozzi

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#17

Collins Big Cat Arabic – Discovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb: Level 15

Juliet Kerrigan

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

#18

Time Travellers: Ancient Greece The Perfect Gift for Budding Historians

Francisco Llorca

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Ancient • Europe

#19

The Curse of the Mummy Uncovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Candace Fleming

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Ancient • Juvenile Nonfiction

#20

Henry the Navigator

Charnan Simon

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

#21

The Boy on the Wooden Box How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler’s List

Leon Leyson

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

#22

Isabella of Castile

Shirin Yim Bridges

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

#23

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Phillip Hoose

Themes: Adventure & Adventurers • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

#24

Hugh O’Flaherty His Wartime Adventures

Alison Walsh

Themes: Adventure & Adventurers • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

If Guts & Glory: The Vikings by Ben Thompson is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Exploration & Discovery, Adventure & Adventurers, Ancient and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Sharon K. Solomon, Michael Smith, Peggy Caravantes, Kate Coombs, and others.