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24 alternatives to Empire of the Summer Moon

Fascinating, vivid, and complex story of the "Old West"

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Empire of the Summer Moon launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Tin Star▲71
Enormous interactive novel set in the Wild West
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
2
The Flight of the Silvers▲63
A world of time travel and disruption.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel▲55
Memory and Imagination of Coming of Age in France and Russia
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Train Dreams▲55
An American epic in miniature
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West ▲67
An epic of the violence and depravity of Manifest Destiny
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies▲56
The Real West
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Sapiens▲185
A brief history of humankind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August▲55
An amazing, unique take on time travel
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
Valley of the Gods▲65
A Silicon Valley story
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
Light▲58
A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Gardens of the Moon▲60
First of the Malazan books, 1999
2015 · goodreads.com · its alternatives →
12
The Gene▲64
An Intimate History
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Playing at the World▲54
A history of simulating wars, people & fantastic adventures
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77
Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Americanah▲70
A richly told story set in today’s globalized world
2015 · goodreads.com · its alternatives →
16
Youngblood▲71
The moral complexity of war & its psychological toll
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
The Aeneid▲68
Ancient Rome's blockbuster epic that shaped Western culture
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
The Revenant▲70
Think "The Martian" but set in the Wild West. And it's true.
2015 · its alternatives →
19
The Count of Monte Cristo▲69
"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang"
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
The WikiLeaks Files▲67
The world according to US Empire
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Where does the moon come from?▲111
An illustrated story, from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
22
Walt Disney▲75
The triumph of the American imagination
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress▲75
A computer leads the lunar population in a revolution.
2016 · amazon.de · its alternatives →
24
The Last Days of the Incas▲61
Epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Conquistadors.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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