Books like I have a dream

I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr. reads as inspiring, passionate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Why We Can't Wait

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1963

Both explore civil rights & nonviolence

61% genome match

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass · 2015

Both explore freedom & justice

65% genome match

The Souls of Black Folk

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois · 1907

Both explore justice

51% genome match

Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad

Ann Lane Petry · 1955

Both explore freedom & civil rights

50% genome match

The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln · 1883

Both explore equality

56% genome match

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs · 1861

Both explore freedom

49% genome match

John Brown

W. E. B. Du Bois · 1909

Both explore civil rights

50% genome match

Martin's big words

Doreen Rappaport · 2001

Both explore civil rights & justice

64% genome match

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman · 2021

Both explore hope & justice

63% genome match

The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Olaudah Equiano · 1789

Both explore freedom

43% genome match

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · 1791

Same nonfiction feel

41% genome match

Ikigai

Héctor García · 2016

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match