Books like A dictionary of the English language
A dictionary of the English language by Samuel Johnson reads as authoritative, scholarly. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Essays
Francis Bacon · 1618
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71% genome match
The anatomy of melancholy
Robert Burton · 1624
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69% genome match
De civitate Dei
Augustine of Hippo · 1440
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69% genome match
Psychology
William James · 1892
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Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1900
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69% genome match
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
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69% genome match
After Babel
George Steiner · 1975
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On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history
Thomas Carlyle · 1840
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69% genome match
De Occulta Philosophia
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim · 1533
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A Vindication of Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792
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Zur Farbenlehre
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1810
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69% genome match
The gates of knowledge
Rudolf Steiner · 1912
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69% genome match
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