Read-alikes and related books

Books like Revolution

Across Revolutions & Wars of Independence, Political Freedom, Social History, and Modern — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Revolution by Philip Parker.

Top related books to Revolution

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Turks Across Empires Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914

James H. Meyer

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Social History

Age of Anger A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Social History

Armed Struggle The History of the IRA

Richard English

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

Sparks China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

Ian Johnson

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

A House in the Mountains The Women who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

The Revolutionists The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked The 1970s

Jason Burke

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

I Am a Revolutionary Fred Hampton Speaks

Fred Hampton

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

Mao Zedong

Delia Davin

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

Another Day of Life

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

#10

The Russia Anxiety And How History Can Resolve It — Mark B. Smith

Mark B Smith

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Social History • Modern

#11

The Last Irish Question Will Six Into Twenty-Six Ever Go?

Glenn Patterson

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Social History • Modern

#12

June Fourth The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989

Jeremy Brown

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Social History • Modern

#13

The Finest Hotel in Kabul A People’s History of Afghanistan

Lyse Doucet

Themes: Political Freedom • Social History • Modern

#14

Europe’s 1968 Voices of Revolt

Robert Gildea

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Social History • Modern

#15

Voices of the Nakba A Living History of Palestine

Diana Allan

Themes: Political Freedom • Social History • Modern

#16

Heretics in the Temple Americans who Reject the Nation’s Legal Faith

David Ray Papke

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Social History

#17

Fall of the Sultanate The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922

Ryan Gingeras

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Social History • Modern

#18

Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-2017 History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Wars

Myroslav Shkandrij

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Social History • Modern

#19

Revolutionary Spring Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 — Christopher. Clark

Christopher Clark

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

#20

Citizens A Chronicle of The French Revolution

Simon Schama

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

#21

The French Revolution

Christopher Hibbert

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

#22

Burning Country Syrians in Revolution and War

Robin Yassin-Kassab

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

#23

Places and Names On War, Revolution and Returning

Elliot Ackerman

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

#24

Treason by the Book

Jonathan D. Spence

Themes: Revolutions & Wars of Independence • Political Freedom • Modern

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Revolutions & Wars of Independence, Political Freedom, Social History — the same threads that run through Revolution by Philip Parker. Among the authors featured: James H. Meyer, Pankaj Mishra, Richard English, Ian Johnson, and others.