Books like Freud

Freud by Peter Gay reads as scholarly, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson · 2017

Both explore science

50% genome match

American Prometheus

Kai Bird · 2005

Both explore science

56% genome match

Never at rest

Richard S. Westfall · 1980

Both explore science

59% genome match

Hitler 1936-1945

Ian Kershaw · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Andrew Robinson · 2005

Both explore science

54% genome match

Albert Einstein

Albrecht Fölsing · 1993

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

Khrushchev

William Taubman · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop · 2001

Both explore science

55% genome match

The First Tycoon

T. J. Stiles · 2009

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

From Dawn to Decadence

Jacques Barzun · 2000

Both explore intellectual history

72% genome match

Eleanor Roosevelt

Blanche Wiesen Cook · 1992

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Chip War

Chris Miller · 2022

Same nonfiction feel

53% genome match