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Books like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The best books like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and The Communist Manifesto. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is about imperial decline, religion and power, roman civilization. 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 Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · History
Published in 1848 on the eve of a wave of European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a short political pamphlet that has shaped more history than almost any other document of its length.
A kindred history read.
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- The Republic
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Plato · Philosophy
The Republic is Plato's most ambitious work, a sustained inquiry into the nature of justice staged as a dialogue among Socrates and his companions in Athens.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Da Vinci Code
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Dan Brown · Thriller
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is called to the Louvre in the middle of the night after a curator is found dead, his body arranged in a cryptic pose beside a trail of symbols.
Both dig into religion and power.
Read the summary → - The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver · Literary fiction
In 1959, Baptist missionary Nathan Price moves his wife and four daughters from Georgia to a remote village in the Belgian Congo.
Both dig into religion and power.
Read the summary → - The Priory of the Orange Tree
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Samantha Shannon · Fantasy
The Priory of the Orange Tree is an epic standalone fantasy novel set across multiple continents with distinct cultures, political systems, and relationships to dragons.
Both dig into religion and power.
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.
Read the summary → - 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann · History
Where 1491 ends, 1493 begins.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - 1776
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David McCullough · History
David McCullough's 1776, published in 2005, covers a single year of the American Revolution — from the winter siege of Boston through Washington's crossing of the Delaware and the surprise victory at Trenton.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - A Man on the Moon
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Andrew Chaikin · History
A Man on the Moon is Andrew Chaikin's exhaustive narrative history of the Apollo program, from the first lunar orbit of Apollo 8 in 1968 through the final mission, Apollo 17, in 1972.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
A kindred history read.
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Books like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: quick answers
What are the best books like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
The best books like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Republic by Plato, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, such as imperial decline, religion and power, roman civilization.
What should I read after The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
A natural next read after The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 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 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Republic by Plato.
What books are similar to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon?
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire centers on imperial decline, religion and power, roman civilization. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Republic by Plato, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
