Books like What's wrong with the world

What's wrong with the world by Gilbert Keith Chesterton reads as witty, polemical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1986

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70% genome match

Collected essays

Aldous Huxley · 1959

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Essays of the masters

W. H. Auden · 1956

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The mind of the Maker

Dorothy L. Sayers · 1941

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The wandering scholars

Helen Waddell · 1927

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Essays

Virginia Woolf · 1947

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The lost road and other writings

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1987

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Essays in the art of writing

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1905

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And Yet...

Christopher Hitchens · 2015

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The child that books built

Francis Spufford · 2002

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Enemies of promise and other essays

Cyril Connolly · 1938

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Reason and beauty in the poetic mind

Charles Williams · 1933

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