Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Rambler

24 titles for readers of The Rambler by Samuel Johnson, selected for shared themes: Essays and Literary Collections.

Essays Literary Collections

Top related books to The Rambler

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

Biography

Bill Buford

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Algernon Charles Swinburne; Personal Recollections by His Cousin, Mrs. Disney Leith

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Themes: Essays

Great Ideas V an Image of Africa The Trouble With Nigeria

Chinua Achebe

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

State of the Heart South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love

Nikky Finney

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Lancaster, A Retrospect And The Seasons, A Translation From The Greek (1872)

Thomas Hathornthwaite

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Anatomy of 55 More Songs The Oral History of Top Hits that Changed Rock, Pop and Soul

Marc Myers

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Modern Times Selected Non-fiction

Jean-Paul Sartre

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Vindication A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

Lyndall Gordon

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Portable Magic A History of Books and Their Readers

Emma Smith

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#10

The Lion and the Eagle The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783–1972

Kathleen Burk

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#11

Ireland: the Autobiography One Hundred Years of Irish Life, Told by Its People

John Bowman

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#12

Capsule Stories Isolation Edition

Natasha Lioe

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#13

The Major Works

Sir Thomas Browne

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Themes: Essays

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives

Nancy Pearl

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#16

The Way Of Power: A Series Of Lectures (1918)

John Paul

Themes: Essays

#17

Whatever It Took An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II

Henry Langrehr

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#18

Between Fury And Peace The Many Arts of Derek Walcott

Askold Melnyczuk

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#19

Chronicles of a Liquid Society

Umberto Eco

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#20

Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

Sophocles

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#21

White Girls

Hilton Als

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#22

Radio On A Listener’s Diary

Sarah Vowell

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#23

Pocket Manual Of Rules Of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (1885)

Henry Martyn Robert

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

#24

A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Essays, Literary Collections — the same threads that run through The Rambler by Samuel Johnson. Among the authors featured: Bill Buford, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Chinua Achebe, Nikky Finney, and others.