Books like Hell's Angels
12 books with a reading profile close to Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
history, narrative
Natalie Haynes re-examines the foundations of Western mythology by tracking how female figures were systematically marginalized or vilified through centuries of translation and artistic interpretation.
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2
Hamilton: The Revolution
history, narrative
Hamilton: The Revolution documents the creation of the hip-hop musical from its inception at the White House to its Broadway premiere.
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3
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Irene Vallejo chronicles the evolution of the written word from oral traditions to the codex, focusing on the Mediterranean civilizations of Rome and Greece.
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4
Shrines of Gaiety
history, narrative
Set in 1926 London, the narrative centers on Nellie Coker, a ruthless matriarch who operates a profitable empire of underground nightclubs in Soho.
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5
Marvels
by Kurt Busiek
history, narrative
Phil Sheldon, a news photographer, witnesses the emergence of the superhero era in mid-twentieth-century New York.
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6
Horse
history, narrative
Geraldine Brooks tracks the history of Lexington, a record-breaking 19th-century Thoroughbred, across three distinct timelines.
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7
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
history, narrative
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black, known as Wash, is a field hand on a brutal Barbados sugar plantation until he is selected as a laboratory assistant for Christopher Wilde.
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8
Look Who's Back
by Timur Vermes
history, narrative
In 2011, Adolf Hitler wakes up on a vacant lot in modern Berlin with no memory of the years following 1945.
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9
Caleb's Crossing
history, narrative
Set in the 1660s on Martha's Vineyard, then called Great Harbor, the novel follows Bethia Mayfield, a minister’s daughter who forms a secret friendship with Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain.
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10
The Mountains Sing
history, narrative
Hương, a young girl, narrates the Vietnam War through her family's story, as does her grandmother Diệu Lan, who in the 1950s flees land reform in the north with her children.
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11
The Book of Negroes
history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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12
In the Company of the Courtesan
by Sarah Dunant
history, narrative
The story begins in 1527 during the Sack of Rome, as the luxury-loving prostitute Fiammetta Bianchini and her companion, the dwarf Bucino Teodoldi, escape the city’s destruction.
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