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24 alternatives to The Memory Palace - Building the Brooklyn Bridge

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Memory Palace - Building the Brooklyn Bridge launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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The Memory Palace - Artist in Landscape▲75
Artist in Landscape
2015 · thememorypalace.us · its alternatives →
2
The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77
Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World▲61
The empire that built the Hoover Dam, Chunnel & Big Dig
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret ▲73
Palace of science that changed the course of World War II
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Workers▲65
Archaeology of the Industrial Age
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914▲66
Why a group of well-meaning leaders stumbled into war
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord▲99
The classic account of the final of the Titanic
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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the memory palace - Episode 80 (Shore Leave)▲2
The New York City Subway Sailors
2015 · thememorypalace.us · its alternatives →
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The Memory Palace - Lost lobsters▲79
The story of the lobster from sea pest to delicacy
2015 · thememorypalace.us · its alternatives →
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The Memory Palace - Numbers▲63
Remembering the numbers that represented lives in the draft
2016 · thememorypalace.us · its alternatives →
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The Memory Palace - 60: 400,000 Stars▲71
Edward Pickering and the women who mapped the universe
2015 · thememorypalace.us · its alternatives →
12
The Memory Palace- Origin Stories▲2
A story from Nate DiMeo's own personal history
2015 · thememorypalace.us · its alternatives →
13
Bone Rooms▲73
From scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Moonwalking with Einstein▲72
The story and science of memory.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Kobold's Guide to Worldbuilding▲56
Essays on the creation of worlds, from geology to politics
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
War in Val D’Orcia▲55
An Italian War diary 1943–1944
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Chronicle▲133
Build Codex memories from recent screen context.
Apr 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
18
How Humans Learned to Cross the Ocean▲115
A new story from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
19
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ▲61
William Finnegan's memoir on surfing
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
The Island at the Center of the World▲71
Story of Dutch Manhattan and the colony that shaped America
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York▲62
Amazing detail on the level of impact one man had on NYC.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood▲67
Where the big ideas of the modern era came from
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Palace of Dreams▲53
Ismail Kadare's best work (according to him)
2015 · goodreads.com · its alternatives →
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The Memory Book▲68
The classic guide to improving your memory
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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