Books like Paris
12 books with a reading profile close to Paris by Edward Rutherfurd. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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1
Gates of Fire
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Steven Pressfield’s historical novel reconstructs the Battle of Thermopylae through the eyes of Xeones, a squire and the sole survivor of the Spartan defense.
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2
300
by Frank Miller
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, entertainment
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas leads three hundred Spartan warriors to the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae to block the invading Persian army commanded by the self-proclaimed god-king Xerxes.
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3
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, entertainment
In 1767, Mack McAsh is a young coal miner in a Scottish mining community where workers are legally bound to their employer for life.
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4
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
This book documents the rise and eventual dissolution of the American punk rock movement from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
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5
Small Sacrifices
by Ann Rule
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Ann Rule chronicles the 1983 shooting of the three children of Diane Downs on a rural Oregon road.
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6
Captain Alatriste
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, entertainment
In seventeenth-century Madrid, Diego Alatriste lives as a sword for hire, sustaining himself on dangerous commissions while recovering from war wounds.
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7
Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
Also outward-looking · history, entertainment
Sarah Vowell tracks the site-specific histories of the three American presidents murdered before the Secret Service provided permanent protection: Abraham Lincoln, James A.
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8
Cleopatra's Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, entertainment
Following the suicide of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, their daughter Selene and her surviving brothers are taken from Egypt to Rome as captives.
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9
Eaters of the Dead
history, entertainment
Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a tenth-century Arab diplomat, is forced to accompany a group of Vikings on a journey to the northern lands.
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10
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Lieutenant General Harold G.
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11
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1879, Lieutenant George De Long led the USS Jeannette toward the North Pole, fueled by the incorrect scientific theory of an Open Polar Sea.
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12
The Devil and the Dark Water
history, entertainment
Set in 1634, the narrative follows the Saardam, an East India Company merchant ship traveling from Batavia to Amsterdam.
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