Books like A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson reads as witty, accessible. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Body
Bill Bryson · 2019
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
84% genome match
Death by Black Hole
Neil deGrasse Tyson · 2007
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
81% genome match
The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean · 2010
Shares the history + vvoice thread
71% genome match
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake · 2020
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
72% genome match
An Immense World
Ed Yong · 2022
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
69% genome match
Kobane Calling
Zerocalcare · 2020
Shares the history + vvoice thread
69% genome match
Cosmos
Carl Sagan · 1980
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
69% genome match
Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku · 2008
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
69% genome match
A Russian Journal
John Steinbeck · 1999
Shares the history + vvoice thread
69% genome match
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 2016
Shares the history + vvoice thread
69% genome match
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber · 2011
Shares the history + vvoice thread
69% genome match
The Poisoner's Handbook
Deborah Blum · 2010
Shares the history thread
69% genome match
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