Steven Pressfield · 1998
- What it is
-
No filter
- Genre
- Historical fiction
- Feels
- Visceral Unflinching Epic Gritty
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
Books similar to Gates of Fire
Coming from Gates of Fire? Start with Wolf of the Plains, Sea of Poppies, Pillars of the Earth. 3 more below, each with why it fits.
Our bet
If you're after something dark, no filter, start here
Wolf of the Plains
Conn Iggulden · 2007
A reader shelved it with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh · 2005
A reader shelved it with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 2007
It tells it straight · somewhere to move into for a while
The Revenant
Michael Punke · 2002
It tells it straight
Whatever you're after
The closest, according to readers
Ballad of Black Tom
Victor D. LaValle · 2016
Hard, and nobody dresses it up · something bad in the air
Was it something else?
Tell us and we'll pull out more.
Still hunting?
Ask other readers for books like this one
On Drayfus, a stack is a small shelf a reader hand-picked around one theme. Open one with this book and other readers vote in the titles that belong, so your list keeps growing without you.
Open a stack with this book