Books like All Boys Aren't Blue

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson reads as candid, empowering. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah · 2016

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Free Lunch

Rex Ogle · 2019

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Essays

Kiese Laymon · 2013

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Manchild in the promised land

Claude Brown · 1937

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Somewhere We Are Human

Reyna Grande · 2021

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Little Britches

Ralph Moody · 1950

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Baby driver

Jan Kerouac · 1981

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi · 2019

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Teacher Man

Frank McCourt · 2005

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Riding in Cars with Boys

Beverly Donofrio · 1990

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Unpolished gem

Alice Pung · 2006

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls · 2005

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match