18 books like Bushidō

What to read after Bushidō — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Escenas matritenses Ramón de Mesonero Romanos · 1862 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Challenging El interés de Mesonero Romanos por su ciudad natal dio como fruto algunas de sus obras más importantes, como esta, en la que reflejó la moralidad matritense. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

Gorin no sho Miyamoto Musashi · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A psychological guide to strategy applicable to business, philosophy, or martial arts, written by sixteenth-century warrior Miyamoto Musashi as a means of explaining his success as a practitioner of Japanese swordfighting, or Kendo. Shares: Bushido, Philosophy, History

Этика Peter Kropotkin · 1923 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Ethics: Origin and Development is a book by Peter Kropotkin, published posthumously in 1921. It continues the argument of Mutual Aid, that sociable morality is essential to human survival. It was translated into English by Louis S. Friedland and Joseph R. Piroshnikoff in 1924. (Source: Wikipedia) Shares: Ethics, Philosophy, History

Shōgun James Clavell · 1975 · ★ 4.4 · 1129p · ≈ 37h · Challenging After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and… Shares: Samurai, History

Rurouni Kenshin Nobuhiro Watsuki · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate As Kenshin's battles Raijuta to decide the fate of the Mieji school of swordsmanship, it becomes apparent that Raijuta will do anything to ensure the supremacy of his school of sword fighting. Meanwhile, Sanosuke runs into an old friend and finds himself caught up in a plot to topple the government. Includes the first story the author ever published. Shares: Bushido, History

Badge of Glory Douglas Reeman · 1924 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman. Discover the master of the naval adventure thriller.1850: the age of Empire, the age of contrast, the age of dramatic change - one which would determine the destinies of nations as well as of men.Captain Philip Blackwood of the Royal Marines rejoins his ship, HMS Audacious that August, anxious to get back into action. Per Mare - Per Terram is the Marines'… Shares: Military History, History

The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes - the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met - the summer, as it turns… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

Öteki renkler Orhan Pamuk · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

Los funerales de la Mamá Grande Gabriel García Márquez · 1962 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Huit contes écrits en 1962. "L'enfance de l'art", comme le note A. Rinaldi. Ou plus explicitement des esquisses pour ce qui deviendra ##Cent ans de solitude##. Des textes tropicaux, baroques, avec des reflets fantastiques. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

Arthur Beram Saklatvala · 1967 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. Shares: Military History, History

History of the Wars Procopius · 1531 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Demanding History of the Wars by the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) consists largely of sixth century CE military history, with much information about peoples, places, and special events. Powerful description complements careful narration. Procopius is just to the empire's enemies and boldly criticises emperor Justinian. Shares: Military History, History

The road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis… Shares: Civilization, Social life and customs, History

Nine Stories J. D. Salinger · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

Gli eroici furori Giordano Bruno · 1887 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The second part of The Heroic Enthusiasts which I am now sending to the press is on the same subject as the first, namely the struggles of the soul in its upward progress towards purification and freedom, and the author makes use of lower things to picture and suggest the higher. It is interesting to note that in the first part of The Heroic Enthusiasts (page 122), Bruno makes a distinct allusion… Shares: Ethics, Philosophy

Marlborough Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Challenging "Marlborough: His Life and Times is an exhaustive, four-volume panegyric biography, in which Churchill defends his ancestor against claims of war-mongering and charlatanism made by Thomas Macaulay, a 19th-century historian and Whig politician. The Duke of Marlborough was a military commander and statesman, who rose from a page at the Stuart court to one of the richest and most successful royal… Shares: Military History, History

The ballad of the white horse Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1911 · ★ 4.3 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Of great limbs gone to chaos, A great face turned to night - Why bend above a shapeless shroud Seeking in such archaic cloud Sight of strong lords and light? Shares: Military History, History

Fall of Giants Ken Follett · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 998p · ≈ 33h · Moderate It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs, History

Short studies on great subjects James Anthony Froude · 1867 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging There was a time—a time which, measured by the years of our national life, was not so very long ago—when the serious thoughts of mankind were occupied exclusively by religion and politics. The small knowledge which they possessed of other things was tinctured by their speculative opinions on the relations of heaven and earth; and, down to the sixteenth century, art, science, scarcely even… Shares: Civilization, Philosophy, History

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