Read-alikes and related books

Books like History

Readers who finished History by Bill Buford and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Literary Collections.

Literary Collections

Top related books to History

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of History.

Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic

Charles Martindale

Themes: Literary Collections

The Complete Poems of John Donne

John Donne

Themes: Literary Collections

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A – Third Edition The Medieval Period – The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century – The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

Joseph Black

Themes: Literary Collections

Les Moeurs D’Aujourd’Hui (1854)

Auguste Luchet

Themes: Literary Collections

Middle English Word Studies A Word and Author Index

Louise Sylvester

Themes: Literary Collections

The House of Memory Reflections on Youth and War

John Freely

Themes: Literary Collections

Le Poete Fortunat (1890)

Charles Nisard

Themes: Literary Collections

A Hitch in Time Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

Christopher Hitchens

Themes: Literary Collections

Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Tabl

Thomas Malory

Themes: Literary Collections

#10

Ormond

Maria Edgeworth

Themes: Literary Collections

#11

Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles &c., Selected With Chapter on the Various Forms

Gleeson White

Themes: Literary Collections

#12

Possessed of a Past A John Banville Reader

John Banville

Themes: Literary Collections

#13

In Her Own Hand series boxed set

Jane Austen

Themes: Literary Collections

#14

Artaud Anthology

Antonin Artaud

Themes: Literary Collections

#15

Reunion Beach Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank

Carrie Feron

Themes: Literary Collections

#16

History of English Literature; Volume 2

Henri Van Laun

Themes: Literary Collections

#17

Robert Burns

Themes: Literary Collections

#18

Greatest Works of Oscar Wilde (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) — Oscar. Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Literary Collections

#19

The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest

Fábio Zuker

Themes: Literary Collections

#20

Journal to Stella Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, 1710-1713

Jonathan Swift

Themes: Literary Collections

#21

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Themes: Literary Collections

#22

The Shakespearean Ethic

John Vyvyan

Themes: Literary Collections

#23

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt

Themes: Literary Collections

#24

A Spiel Amang Us Glasgow People Writing : the Scotia Bar Writers’ Prize

Brendan McLaughlin

Themes: Literary Collections

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with History by Bill Buford. Connected by Literary Collections. Authors featured include Charles Martindale, John Donne, Joseph Black, Auguste Luchet, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.