Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Book

What to read after The Book by Keith Houston: 24 titles sharing themes of World, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

World History

Top related books to The Book

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

The Egyptian Book of the Dead Luxury Full-Color Edition

Arcturus Publishing Limited

Themes: World

Electable Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet

Ali Vitali

Themes: World

Nexus A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

Themes: World

Snobs The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself

Russell Lynes

Themes: World

The Untold History of Ramen How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze

George Solt

Themes: World

The Square and the Tower Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

Niall Ferguson

Themes: World

The Visible Word Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

Johanna Drucker

Themes: History

Sex with Presidents The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

Eleanor Herman

Themes: World

Off with Her Head Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Eleanor Herman

Themes: World

#10

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

David Gibbins

Themes: World

#11

Magisteria The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

Nicholas Spencer

Themes: World

#12

An account of the life of George Berkeley, D.D. late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. With notes, containing strictures upon his works.

Joseph Stock

Themes: World

#13

Indigenous Healing as Paradox Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony

Krista Maxwell

Themes: World

#14

Plunder and Survival Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery, and Migration of Nazi Uprooted Art

Suzanne Loebl

Themes: World

#15

Inside the Kingdom Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Robert Lacey

Themes: World

#16

Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

Themes: World

#17

Das Herzogtum Schleswig in seiner ethnographischen und nationalen Entwickelung.

August Sach

Themes: World

#18

The Matter of Black Lives Writing from the New Yorker

Jelani Cobb

Themes: World

#19

Next Year in America A Family History of Eastern European Jews in the Old and New Worlds

Taylor Shiroff

Themes: World

#20

Slanted How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism

Sharyl Attkisson

Themes: World

#21

The Decline and Fall of Civilisations

Kerry Bolton

Themes: World

#22

Soccer and Racism The Beginnings of Futebol in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1895-1933

Rosana Barbosa

Themes: World

#23

The Glorious Art of Peace From the Iliad to Iraq

John Gittings

Themes: World

#24

The Last Years of Polish Jewry Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935-37

Robert J. Brym

Themes: World

If The Book by Keith Houston is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by World and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Arcturus Publishing Limited, Ali Vitali, Yuval Noah Harari, Russell Lynes, and others.