Books like The Prince
If you liked The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Between the World and Me
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history, politics.
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy, politics.
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of…
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The Art of War
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy, nonfiction.
Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting: laying plans, knowing ground, using spies, and why the best victory costs least,…
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Because shares tags: history, philosophy, nonfiction.
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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War and Peace
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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The Trial
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
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The Name of the Rose
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…
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John Adams
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.
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Greenlights
Because shares tags: nonfiction, philosophy.
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
