Books like Forbidden knowledge

Forbidden knowledge by Roger Shattuck reads as analytical, scholarly. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Le suicide

Émile Durkheim · 1850

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

Illness as metaphor

Susan Sontag · 1978

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

The creation of patriarchy

Gerda Lerner · 1986

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

Age of Anger

Pankaj Mishra · 2017

Both explore enlightenment

62% genome match

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber · 2021

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott · 1998

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The Uncertainties of Knowledge (Politics, History, and Social Change)

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Las Reglas del Arte

Pierre Bourdieu · 1992

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

Traditions & encounters

Jerry H. Bentley · 1999

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Modernity and self-identity

Anthony Giddens · 1991

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Same philosophy feel

61% genome match