Books like The Frontiersmen

The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert reads as detailed, dramatic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz · 2014

Both explore indigenous history

66% genome match

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

Joe Jackson · 2016

Both explore indigenous history

66% genome match

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly · 2016

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

The rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris · 1979

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford · 2004

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

The Black Count

Tom Reiss · 2012

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

An Army at Dawn

Rick Atkinson · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Marie Antoinette

Antonia Fraser · 2001

Same historical feel

59% genome match

The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson · 2020

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

No Ordinary Time

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match