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Books like Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
The best books like Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland is about republican collapse, political ambition, roman republic. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · History
Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is one of the monuments of historical writing in English.
A kindred history read.
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- The Path to Power
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Robert A. Caro · Biography
The first volume of Robert A.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume II
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Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume II
Robert A. Caro · Biography
Means of Ascent is the second volume of Robert Caro's multi-decade biography of Lyndon Johnson, covering the years between Johnson's defeat in the 1941 Senate race and his stolen victory in the 1948 Democratic primary.
Shares political ambition and power and corruption with Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
Both dig into power and corruption.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
Both dig into power and corruption.
Read the summary → - The Lord of the Rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Philosophy
The Lord of the Rings is a single novel published in three volumes between 1954 and 1955.
Both dig into power and corruption.
Read the summary → - The Maltese Falcon
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Dashiell Hammett · Mystery
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade is hired by a woman calling herself Miss Wonderly to find her missing sister — a lie within thirty seconds of the novel opening.
Both dig into power and corruption.
Read the summary → - The Pillars of the Earth
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Ken Follett · Historical fiction
The Pillars of the Earth follows the construction of a cathedral in the fictional English town of Kingsbridge across roughly forty years in the twelfth century, set against the real historical chaos of King Stephen's reign — a period of civil war and disputed succession known as The Anarchy.
Both dig into power and corruption.
Read the summary → - The Princess Bride
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William Goldman · Fantasy
The Princess Bride presents itself as an abridgment: William Goldman claims he is cutting the "boring parts" from a dense historical novel by the fictional S.
Both dig into power and corruption.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
A kindred history read.
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Books like Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic: quick answers
What are the best books like Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic?
The best books like Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume II by Robert A. Caro, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, such as republican collapse, political ambition, roman republic.
What should I read after Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic?
A natural next read after Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro.
What books are similar to Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland?
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic centers on republican collapse, political ambition, roman republic. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume II by Robert A. Caro, A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
