Books like The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 by Daniel Defoe reads as somber, factual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Diary

Samuel Pepys · 1825

Both explore plague

65% genome match

History

Herodotus · 1494

Same classic feel

58% genome match

History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides · 1526

Same classic feel

61% genome match

De bello Gallico

Gaius Julius Caesar · 1802

Same classic feel

59% genome match

De bello judaico

Flavius Josephus · 1481

Same classic feel

57% genome match

Dell'Arte della Guerra

Niccolò Machiavelli · 1540

Same classic feel

55% genome match

The histories

Polybius · 1542

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

-- Annales

P. Cornelius Tacitus · 1600

Same classic feel

55% genome match

History of the Wars

Procopius · 1531

Same classic feel

56% genome match

Bibliotheca historica

Diodorus Siculus · 1472

Same classic feel

52% genome match

I Know My Own Heart

Anne Lister · 1988

Same classic feel

52% genome match

Just and Unjust Wars

Michael Walzer · 1977

Same nonfiction feel

50% genome match