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24 alternatives to Moby Dick

Released on this day, 164 years ago!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Moby Dick launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   In the Heart of the Sea▲61

   Its story inspired Moby Dick

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   A Million Miles in a Thousand Years▲62

   How I Learned to Live a Better Story

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Losing My Virginity▲72

   How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune -Richard Branson

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Who Moved My Blackberry?▲69

   Comedy written solely based on BBM and Email exchanges

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Tollbooth▲69

   Totally insane story about a Jersey tollbooth worker.

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Timequake▲60

   Everyone must live the 90s again

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ▲61

   William Finnegan's memoir on surfing

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Song Machine▲105

   There's a reason hit songs offer guilty pleasure

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   MegaMaker - 30 - "Like a kid in a candy store"▲95

   When we had our first child 14 years ago, we made a decision

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Dirt▲66

    No-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Men Who Would Be King▲73

    Here is Hollywood, up close, glamorous, and gritty.

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Confessions of an Advertising Man▲78

    "The Bible" for the 1960s ad generation, but still relevant

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Classies▲89

    The mobile library with thousands of classic short stories

    2017 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Quarter Life Poetry▲64

    Poems for the Young, Broke and Hangry

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Gandhi: An Autobiography▲62

    The story of my experiments with truth

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Where Wizards Stay Up Late▲56

    A History of the Origins of the Internet

    2015 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk▲67

    The backstory of the rise of Punk Music

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Vintage Cartoons▲96

    The best cartoons from the early days

    2014 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Boo Hoo▲78

    A dot.com story from concept to catastrophe

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life ▲67

    Richard Branson shares his life lessons

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen▲85

    Rich Cohen's historical profile of Samuel Zemurray

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    The Long Hard Road Out of Hell▲56

    Marilyn Manson's dark and twisted autobiography

    2015 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    The Old Way▲77

    A story of the first people

    2015 · its alternatives →

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