Books like A Short History of Nearly Everything
If you liked A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Because shares tags: history, science.
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
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A Brief History of Time
Because shares tags: science, physics.
Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations.
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Lessons in Chemistry
Because shares tags: science, humor.
Lessons in Chemistry retold: Elizabeth Zott fired, TV cooking with science, Six-Thirty helps.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Because shares tags: history, science.
Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the…
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Because also by Bill Bryson; shares tag: humor.
Bryson and friend Katz attempt the Appalachian Trail with blisters, bears, and laughs.
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The Three-Body Problem
Because shares tag: physics.
A physicist meets a secret from the Cultural Revolution and a game that models a dying alien sky.
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The Prince
Because shares tag: history.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Nanny Diaries
Because shares tag: humor.
NYU student Nan nannies four-year-old Grayer X on Park Avenue, caught between a demanding Mrs. X, an absent Mr. X, and a lonely child who…
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Because shares tag: history.
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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Running with Scissors
Because shares tag: humor.
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
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Origin
Because shares tag: science.
Robert Langdon chases Edmond Kirsch's lost discovery through Bilbao and Barcelona to answer where we come from and where we are going.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Because shares tag: history.
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
