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Books like The Periodic Table

Explore 24 books like The Periodic Table by Primo Levi — a handpicked selection united by Literary Criticism.

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Top related books to The Periodic Table

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Periodic Table.

The Recovering Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Leslie Jamison

Themes: Literary Criticism

Heaven A Prison Diary

Jeffrey Archer

Themes: Literary Criticism

Kafka’s Other Trial

Elias Canetti

Themes: Literary Criticism

Strange Meetings The Lives of the Poets of the Great War

Harry Ricketts

Themes: Literary Criticism

The Joker A Memoir

Andrew Hudgins

Themes: Literary Criticism

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey

Themes: Literary Criticism

On Lighthouses

Jazmina Barrera

Themes: Literary Criticism

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

Themes: Literary Criticism

Bunyan

James Anthony Froude

Themes: Literary Criticism

#10

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Robert Stone

Themes: Literary Criticism

#11

The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. by His Nephew, Pierre M. Irving. Vol. 3

Pierre Munroe Irving

Themes: Literary Criticism

#12

Box 18 The Unpublished Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

Themes: Literary Criticism

#13

Anthony Powell

Hilary Spurling

Themes: Literary Criticism

#14

The Book of Intimate Grammar A Novel

David Grossman

Themes: Literary Criticism

#15

Wrestling with the Devil A Prison Memoir — Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Themes: Literary Criticism

#16

Thomas Hardy’s World The Life, Times and Works of the Great Novelist and Poet

Molly Lefebure

Themes: Literary Criticism

#17

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Literary Criticism

#18

A Preparation for Death

Greg Baxter

Themes: Literary Criticism

#19

Nietzsche’s Early Literary Writings and The Birth of Tragedy

Steven D. Martinson

Themes: Literary Criticism

#20

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self

Claire Tomalin

Themes: Literary Criticism

#21

Lincoln The Biography of a Writer

Fred Kaplan

Themes: Literary Criticism

#22

Girlhood

Melissa Febos

Themes: Literary Criticism

#23

A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Themes: Literary Criticism

#24

Mrs Woolf and the Servants The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

Alison Light

Themes: Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Literary Criticism — the same threads that run through The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. Among the authors featured: Leslie Jamison, Jeffrey Archer, Elias Canetti, Harry Ricketts, and others.