Books like Bullshit Jobs

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber reads as critical, satirical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Max Weber

Max Weber · 1963

Both explore bureaucracy & capitalism

53% genome match

The Culture of the New Capitalism

Richard Sennett · 2000

Both explore capitalism

68% genome match

How to change the world

Eric Hobsbawm · 2011

Both explore capitalism

65% genome match

Essential works of socialism

Irving Howe · 1970

Both explore economics

63% genome match

L'imagination sociologique

C. Wright Mills · 1959

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth

John Bellamy Foster · 2011

Both explore capitalism

63% genome match

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser · 2001

Both explore capitalism & labor

74% genome match

Classical sociological theory

George Ritzer · 1992

Both explore capitalism

58% genome match

Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft

Friedrich Engels · 1880

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The invention of capitalism

Michael Perelman · 2000

Both explore capitalism & labor

74% genome match

The transition from feudalism to capitalism

Paul Marlor Sweezy · 1954

Both explore capitalism

60% genome match

Work Won't Love You Back

Sarah Jaffe · 2021

Both explore labor & capitalism

74% genome match