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Books like Guns, Germs, and Steel 1997
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Guns, Germs, and Steel
Books closest to Guns, Germs, and Steel
Day of Empire 2007Also epic, cool and earnest
Dominion 2019Also epic, earnest and cool
The wealth and poverty of nations 1998Also epic, cool and earnest
Collapse 2004Also epic, earnest and plot-driven
Nonviolence 2006Also earnest, epic and grave
Empire 2003Also epic, cool and earnest
Lies Across America 1999Also cool, earnest and epic
The creationists 1992Also cool, earnest and grave
1493 2011Also epic, earnest and plot-driven
The march of folly 1984Also epic, cool and plot-driven
The imperial presidency 1973Also cool, epic and earnest
The social transformation of American medicine 1978Also cool, epic and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Life on Earth 1979Also epic, earnest and plot-driven
Andrew Marr's History of the World 2012Also epic, earnest and plot-driven
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 1980Also epic, earnest and plot-driven
Films
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970Also epic, earnest and grave
Day of Freedom 1935Also earnest, plot-driven and grave
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life 1925Also earnest, grave and plot-driven
Games
Twilight Struggle 2016Also epic, cool and grave
F-22 Total Air War 1998Also cool, grave and earnest
Apache 1995Also cool, classical in form and earnest
Albums
- Wu‐Tang Forever 1997Also cool, classical in form and grave
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