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Books Like The Republic

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Loved The Republic by Plato? If its nonfiction, classics and philosophy hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Meditations, The Dispossessed and The 48 Laws of Power. 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 The Republic: Nonfiction · Classics · Philosophy · Politics · Dialogue-Heavy

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   Meditations

   Marcus Aurelius

   Philosophy · Classics · Nonfiction · Ancient History · Religion & Spirituality

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   The Dispossessed

   Ursula K. Le Guin

   Politics · Philosophy · Classics · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced

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   The 48 Laws of Power

   Robert Greene

   Nonfiction · Politics · Philosophy · Dense Prose

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

   Eugene Finkel

   Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Propaganda

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   Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

   Silvia Federici

   Nonfiction · Politics · Philosophy · Dense Prose

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   Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope

   Mark Manson

   Philosophy · Nonfiction · Politics · Religion & Spirituality

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   The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

   Tim Schwab

   Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Education

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8. 

   The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

   John Bagot Glubb

   Nonfiction · Politics · Philosophy · Ancient History

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9. 

   My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

   Abigail Adams, John Adams

   Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Classics

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    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Classics · Dense Prose · Philosophy · Slow-Paced · Religion & Spirituality

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    The Atlas Six

    Olivie Blake

    Dialogue-Heavy · Philosophy · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced

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12. 

    12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

    Jordan B Peterson

    Philosophy · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Religion & Spirituality

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13. 

    A Promised Land

    Barack Obama

    Politics · Nonfiction · 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

    Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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15. 

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Arthur C. Clarke

    Classics · Philosophy · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced

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16. 

    Power vs. Force

    David R. Hawkins

    Nonfiction · Philosophy · Dense Prose · Religion & Spirituality

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

    Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

    Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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18. 

    Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

    Jonathan Blitzer

    Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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19. 

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

    Ned Blackhawk

    Nonfiction · Politics · Dense Prose

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20. 

    Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Charles T. Munger

    Philosophy · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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