Books like Manchild in the promised land

Manchild in the promised land by Claude Brown reads as raw, gritty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Nigger

Dick Gregory · 1965

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Geoffrey Canada · 1995

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Makes Me Wanna Holler

Nathan McCall · 1994

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Por Estas Calles Bravas

Piri Thomas · 1967

Shares the vvoice thread

81% genome match

Down Second Avenue

Es'kia Mphahlele · 1940

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou · 1969

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell · 1933

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Life on the color line

Gregory Howard Williams · 1995

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

All souls

Michael Patrick MacDonald · 1999

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt · 1996

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls · 2005

Shares the escape + vvoice thread

69% genome match