Books like Illness as metaphor

Illness as metaphor by Susan Sontag reads as analytical, critical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Essays

Roland Barthes · 1979

Both explore language

65% genome match

AIDS and its metaphors

Susan Sontag · 1979

Both explore illness & metaphor

72% genome match

Madness and Civilization

Michel Foucault · 1988

Both explore society

54% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Both explore language

67% genome match

Forbidden knowledge

Roger Shattuck · 1996

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

The hatred of poetry

Ben Lerner · 2016

Both explore language

68% genome match

Las Reglas del Arte

Pierre Bourdieu · 1992

Same nonfiction feel

66% genome match

The creation of patriarchy

Gerda Lerner · 1986

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

The eating of the gods

Jan Kott · 1973

Same nonfiction feel

66% genome match

Illuminationen

Walter Benjamin · 1961

Both explore language

64% genome match

Semiotics of poetry

Michael Riffaterre · 1978

Same nonfiction feel

64% genome match