Books like Dear America

Dear America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti reads as informative, empathetic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Out of Darkness

Russell Freedman · 1997

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun

Rhoda Blumberg · 1985

Same nonfiction feel

64% genome match

Joan of Arc

Diane Stanley · 1998

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

The Double Life of Pocahontas

Jean Fritz · 1983

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

George Washington

Ingri Parin D'Aulaire · 1936

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Across America on an Emigrant Train

Jim Murphy · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

64% genome match

Half the sky

Nicholas D. Kristof · 2009

Both explore social justice & activism

74% genome match

La cité de la joie

Dominique Lapierre · 1985

Both explore poverty & social justice

71% genome match

Secret Soldier

Ann McGovern · 1975

Same ya feel

60% genome match

Better Day Coming

Adam Fairclough · 2001

Both explore social justice & activism

70% genome match

Strangers from a different shore

Ronald Takaki · 1989

Both explore social justice

69% genome match

Invincible Louisa

Cornelia Meigs · 1933

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match