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If The Histories by Herodotus is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Iran, Historiography, Civilization and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Jim Lacey, Ibn Khaldûn, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Eckart Frahm, and others.