Books like Life of Samuel Johnson
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell reads as erudite, observational. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Lives of the poets
Samuel Johnson · 1820
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70% genome match
Historia Alexandri Magni
Quintus Curtius Rufus · 1481
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69% genome match
The Histories
Herodotus · -430
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The life of Washington
Mason Locke Weems · 1800
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Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann · 1969
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Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig · 1900
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Thomas Carlyle · 1800
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Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch · 1841
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83% genome match
Essays
Francis Bacon · 1618
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69% genome match
Ab urbe condita
Titus Livius · 1481
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The World of Ice & Fire
George R. R. Martin · 2014
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Sesame and Lilies, three lectures
John Ruskin · 1800
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