Books like Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis reads as critical, urgent. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Carceral Capitalism

Jackie Wang · 2018

Both explore social justice

65% genome match

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale · 2017

Both explore criminal justice & social justice

75% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Both explore social justice

55% genome match

Moral mazes

Robert Jackall · 1988

Same nonfiction feel

51% genome match

Complaints and disorders

Barbara Ehrenreich · 1973

Same nonfiction feel

53% genome match

Le suicide

Émile Durkheim · 1850

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz · 2014

Both explore social justice

64% genome match

Crazy

Pete Earley · 2006

Both explore criminal justice

66% genome match

Peau Noire, Masques Blancs

Frantz Fanon · 1952

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell

George Orwell · 1968

Both explore social justice

64% genome match

You can't be neutral on a moving train

Howard Zinn · 1994

Both explore social justice

65% genome match

Power and ideology in education

Jerome Karabel · 1977

Same nonfiction feel

51% genome match