Books like Pooh and the Philosophers

Pooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman Williams reads as playful, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Las Preguntas de La Vida

Fernando Savater · 1999

Both explore ethics

65% genome match

How Proust can change your life

Alain De Botton · 1997

Both explore philosophy

62% genome match

Plato and a platypus walk into a bar--

Thomas Cathcart · 2008

Both explore philosophy & logic

83% genome match

How to Be Idle

Tom Hodgkinson · 2005

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Modern philosophy

Roger Scruton · 1994

Both explore ethics

57% genome match

Conversations on Love

Natasha Lunn · 2021

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

How to read literature like a professor

Thomas C. Foster · 2002

Both explore literary analysis

65% genome match

The state of affairs

Esther Perel · 2017

Same nonfiction feel

50% genome match

A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell · 1945

Both explore philosophy & logic

64% genome match

The antidote

Oliver Burkeman · 2012

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

John Allen Paulos · 1985

Both explore logic & philosophy

68% genome match

The mystery of things

A. C. Grayling · 2004

Both explore ethics

50% genome match