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Books like The Hero

Explore 24 books like The Hero by Lee Child — a handpicked selection united by Evolutionary Psychology, Storytelling, Fiction Writing, and Folklore & Mythology.

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

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Themes: Storytelling • Folklore & Mythology • Writing

Your Storytelling Potential The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay Or Novel

Mitchell German

Themes: Storytelling • Fiction Writing • Writing

Sitting Up with the Dead A Storied Journey Through the American South

Pamela Petro

Themes: Storytelling • Folklore & Mythology • Social History

Wordslut A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

The Seven Basic Plots Why We Tell Stories – 20th Anniversary Edition

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Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

On Monsters An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

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Themes: Folklore & Mythology • Ancient • Social History

The Grail Chronicles Tracing the Holy Grail from the Last Supper to Its Current Location

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Themes: Folklore & Mythology • Ancient • Social History

Relating Narratives Storytelling and Selfhood

Adriana Cavarero

Themes: Storytelling • Writing • Performing Arts

First Steps How Upright Walking Made Us Human

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Themes: Evolutionary Psychology • Ancient • World

#10

100 Novels That Changed the World

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Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

#11

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

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Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • World

#12

A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Understanding Planet, People, and Prosperity

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Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Performing Arts

#13

The Best American Sports Writing 2019

Charles Patrick Pierce

Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

#14

The Uncoiling Python South African Storytellers and Resistance

Harold Scheub

Themes: Storytelling • Folklore & Mythology • Performing Arts

#15

The Best American Sports Writing 2017

Rick Telander

Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

#16

Semicolon The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Cecelia Watson

Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

#17

The Best American Sports Writing 2015

Glenn Stout

Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Social History

#18

The Glorious Art of Peace From the Iliad to Iraq

John Gittings

Themes: Ancient • Social History • World

#19

Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative The English Language Tradition

Clodagh Brennan Harvey

Themes: Storytelling • Folklore & Mythology • Performing Arts

#20

Storytime with Robert Robert A. Johnson Tells His Favorite Stories and Myths

Robert A. Johnson

Themes: Storytelling • Folklore & Mythology • Performing Arts

#21

From Holmes to Sherlock The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon

Mattias Boström

Themes: Fiction Writing • Writing • Performing Arts

#22

Wasting Time on the Internet

Kenneth Goldsmith

Themes: Storytelling • Writing • Performing Arts

#23

The Ideology of Democratic Athens Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past

Matteo Barbato

Themes: Folklore & Mythology • Ancient • Social History

#24

Venus and Aphrodite History of a Goddess

Bettany Hughes

Themes: Folklore & Mythology • Ancient • Social History

If The Hero by Lee Child is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Evolutionary Psychology, Storytelling, Fiction Writing and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Laura Simms, Mitchell German, Pamela Petro, Amanda Montell, and others.