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Books Like John Adams

by David McCullough · about this book

Loved John Adams by David McCullough? If its nonfiction, biography and presidential history hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, A Promised Land and King Hancock. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside John Adams: Nonfiction · Biography · Presidential History · History · Revolution

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   My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

   Abigail Adams, John Adams

   Presidential History · Revolution · History · Political Biography · Diplomatic History

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   A Promised Land

   Barack Obama

   Presidential History · Diplomatic History · Political Biography · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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   King Hancock

   Brooke Barbier

   Biography · Political Biography · Revolution · History · Nonfiction

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   Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

   Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

   Political Biography · Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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   Written in My Own Heart's Blood

   Diana Gabaldon

   American Revolution · Revolution · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic

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   The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

   Tom Reiss

   Biography · Revolution · History · Nonfiction

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   A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

   S. Nassir Ghaemi

   Political Biography · History · Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction

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   The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

   Ned Blackhawk

   Diplomatic History · History · Nonfiction · Revolution · Dense Prose

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   One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

   Whitney Alyse Webb

   History · Presidential History · Diplomatic History · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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    Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

    Eugene Finkel

    History · Diplomatic History · Nonfiction · Revolution · Dense Prose

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    Marsha

    Tourmaline

    Biography · Political Biography · History · Nonfiction

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    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

    Mary L Trump

    Political Biography · Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction

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    The Spy and the Traitor

    Ben Macintyre

    History · Biography · Diplomatic History · Nonfiction

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    Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

    Donald T. Phillips

    Presidential History · Political Biography · History · Nonfiction

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    The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

    Mark Peterson

    History · Revolution · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Sprawling Epic

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    Thunderstruck

    Erik Larson

    History · Biography · Nonfiction · Slow-Paced

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    The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

    John Tutino

    History · Revolution · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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    1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation

    Andrew Ross Sorkin

    History · Presidential History · Nonfiction · Biography

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19. 

    Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo

    Revolution · Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Sprawling Epic

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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    History · Biography · Nonfiction · Sprawling Epic · Character-Driven

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