9 must-read history books like Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created by Patrick E. McGovern

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Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created

By: Patrick E. McGovern

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year about Food A Forbes Best Booze Book of the…

If you liked the history plot in Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created by Patrick E. McGovern , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers

By: David Perlmutter , Kristin Loberg

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Perlmutter, the devastating truth about the effects o… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. The Selfish Gene

By: Richard Dawkins

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

3. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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4. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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5. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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6. Ordeal by Innocence

By: Agatha Christie

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in… read more

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7. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more

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8. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

By: Amy Stewart

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley.… read more

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9. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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10. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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11. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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12. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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13. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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14. Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers

By: Matt Kaplan

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Science of Monsters, this engaging scientific inquiry provides a definitive … read more

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15. The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

By: John "Chick" Donohue

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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17. Sorrowland

By: Rivers Solomon

3.83

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more

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"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

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18. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more

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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

Cover of Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions by Michael  Moss

20. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

By: Michael Moss

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Michael Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical commu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history
  • science
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21. Go Hex Yourself (Hex, #1)

By: Jessica Clare

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's one hex of an attraction in this romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jessic… read more

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"Reggie," Ben calls out from above, "I am about to lose my shit, so do me a favor and stop talking."

-Jessica Clare, Go Hex Yourself (Hex, #1)

"I know what it's like to want better for someone than what they want for themselves. But sometimes you have to accept that some people are just the way they are and there's no saving them."

-Jessica Clare, Go Hex Yourself (Hex, #1)

"When my aunt is like this, she’s impossible. No wonder Chicago burned in 1871. She was too stubborn to put out her fire spell then, and she’s too stubborn to get rid of the girl waiting in her study …"

-Jessica Clare, Go Hex Yourself (Hex, #1)

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22. How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege, #2)

By: K.J. Parker

4.11

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

This is the story of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because … read more

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"She drank her wine, looking at me over the rim of her glass. It's a mannerism that has made her very popular with men over the years, and I guess it's like the violin: you have to keep practicing eve…"

-K.J. Parker, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege, #2)

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23. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele

3.65

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Grea… read more

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"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I’m happier with things. I understand stuff like tensile strength, shearing force, ductility, work ha…"

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

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25. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The thought makes my teeth gnash and my lip snarl and my jaw fill with a scream. A scream that always has the same chorus. What they took away, seemingly so easily, was a person. "This was a person!"…"

-Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

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26. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • archaeology
  • science
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27. A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

By: Judith Flanders

3.49

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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28. The Bird King

By: G. Willow Wilson

3.73

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

New from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow… read more

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"Whore," he spat at her. "If I am a whore for resisting you," she said through her teeth, "what would I have been for giving in?" "Whore," he said again."

-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King

"Fatima watched them together, tethered by the particular tenderness of patient and physician, and thought that there was goodness in the world of a sort she couldn't fathom."

-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King

"Perhaps, after all this bother, life was only a choice between two kinds of brutality: the wretched sort that lay on the ground before her, and the civilized sort she had left behind."

-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King

"...God bless the man who first taught the world how to cure olives. He and the man who invented cheese are two unsung pillars of civilization." "They were probably women," muttered Fatima, fanning he…"

-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King

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29. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

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"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

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30. Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created

By: Patrick E. McGovern

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year about Food A Forbes Best Booze Book of the… read more

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  • food and drink
  • history
  • archaeology
  • beer
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • brewing
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3.90

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Richard Dawkins

4.16

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John "Chick" Donohue

3.92

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Elon Green

3.84

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James Renner

3.66

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4.25

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4.12

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