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King Leopold's Ghost

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If you loved King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

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No. 2

The Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang

No. 3

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

No. 4

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

No. 5

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

No. 6

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell, Lionel Trilling

No. 7

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

No. 8

A Bend in the River

V.S. Naipaul

No. 9

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

No. 10

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

No. 11

Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

Chinua Achebe

No. 12

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. Massie

No. 13

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

No. 14

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

No. 15

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson, Tony Goldwyn

No. 16

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque, A.W. Wheen

No. 17

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

No. 18

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Jay Winik

No. 19

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

No. 20

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel, Neil Armstrong

No. 21

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

No. 22

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

No. 23

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Joseph J. Ellis

No. 24

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson