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24 alternatives to Neanderthal: Sing Me To Sleep

The epic story of war between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Neanderthal: Sing Me To Sleep launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Bone Rooms▲73

   From scientific racism to human prehistory in museums

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   A fact-based epic story of love and war between Sapiens and Neanderthals▲6

   2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Man V. Nature▲148

   Stories that illuminate the complexity of human behavior

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Gene▲64

   An Intimate History

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77

   Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914▲66

   Why a group of well-meaning leaders stumbled into war

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Homo Deus▲105

   A Brief History of Tomorrow

   2017 · ynharari.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   The Gene: An Intimate History▲74

   A magnificent history of the gene

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind▲38

    A look into the 3 revolutions that shaped our species

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    The Last Question by Isaac Asimov▲76

    We are the creator and the creation at the same time.

    2016 · goodreads.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Iliad▲62

    Classic greek myth of Agamemnon vs. Achilles by Homer

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Train Dreams▲55

    An American epic in miniature

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    The Sleep Revolution▲82

    Transforming your life, one night at a time

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Hour Between Dog and Wolf▲66

    How risk taking transforms us, body and mind

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Time Travel: A History▲63

    A meditation on exploring time, travel, and technology

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    A Night to Remember by Walter Lord▲99

    The classic account of the final of the Titanic

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    The Bone Clocks▲54

    Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell's latest epic

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    We Need Diverse Books▲87

    Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives

    2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Story of Life, by BBC▲79

    Explore 1000+ of Sir David Attenborough’s memorable moments

    2016 · bbcearth.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Evolutionary Tales▲60

    Teaching kids evolution through 10 poems

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human▲63

    A unified theory about why storytelling evolved

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Darwin’s On the Origin of Species▲61

    A Picture Book Adaptation

    2016 · sabinaradeva.com · its alternatives →

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    Incognito▲70

    The secret lives of the brain

    2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

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