Books like Il formaggio e i vermi

Il formaggio e i vermi by Carlo Ginzburg reads as analytical, scholarly. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Society and culture in early modern France

Natalie Zemon Davis · 1975

Both explore peasant life

63% genome match

Montaillou

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie · 1975

Both explore peasant life & heresy

83% genome match

Memories of War in Early Modern England

Susan Harlan · 2016

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

The kiss of Lamourette

Robert Darnton · 1990

Same nonfiction feel

51% genome match

Forbidden knowledge

Roger Shattuck · 1996

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

Gerda Lerner · 1993

Same nonfiction feel

65% genome match

Le suicide

Émile Durkheim · 1850

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

De la démocratie en Amérique

Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

World Restored Europe After Napoleon

Henry Kissinger · 1957

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

Psychology of religion

David M. Wulff · 1990

Both explore belief systems

65% genome match

Sociological insight

Randall Collins · 1982

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

From Dawn to Decadence

Jacques Barzun · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match