If the maneuvering around the Bank of England, the Trial of the Pyx, and Eliza’s razor‑edged diplomacy in The System of the World hooked you, you’ll love the way Miguel Lienzo schemes to corner the coffee market in 1650s Amsterdam. Like Daniel Waterhouse threading between Whigs, Tories, and Newton’s Mint, Miguel navigates guild politics, insider deals, and information warfare—every bit as cutthroat and witty as Jack Shaftoe’s London intrigues, but focused on commodities, credit, and reputation.

If the decades-spanning sweep from court salons to mints and prisons—following Daniel Waterhouse’s orbit around Newton and Leibniz—was your favorite part of The System of the World, Mason & Dixon delivers that same vast canvas. Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon crisscross the Atlantic, encountering Jesuits, clockwork oddities, and imperial schemes, with the same mix of scientific curiosity, political pressure, and exuberant digressions that colored Daniel’s Royal Society adventures and the Hanoverian succession drama.

If you enjoyed moving between Daniel Waterhouse’s rational vantage, Jack Shaftoe’s street‑level schemes, and Eliza’s courtly calculations in The System of the World, Pears’ novel gives you four sharply conflicting testimonies about a murder in Restoration Oxford. With Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society in the backdrop, the competing narrators twist facts and motives the way Whigs and Tories spin the Pyx and the succession—letting you piece the truth from layered, partisan accounts.

If Stephenson’s mock‑scholarly asides, pamphlets, and treatises—whether on Newton’s Mint, alchemy, or the Pyx—were a delight in The System of the World, Clarke’s footnotes and invented citations will scratch that same itch. Against the Napoleonic backdrop, debates about the proper use of magic echo the Royal Society’s quarrels over reason and authority, giving you the same witty blend of archival play, political maneuver, and world‑reframing marginalia.

If the knot of Newton’s Mint reforms, the Solomonic gold, and the Trial of the Pyx fascinated you in The System of the World, Cryptonomicon mirrors that energy with WWII codebreakers and a modern hunt for buried war gold leading to a data‑haven. The intellectual rush is similar—math, cryptography, and markets steering history—and the cross‑century plotting feels like watching Daniel’s cautious statecraft collide with Jack Shaftoe‑style audacity. Keep an eye out for a familiar wanderer, too—Enoch Root—bridging eras.