Books like Outsiders

Outsiders by Howard Saul Becker reads as analytical, academic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Conformity and conflict

James P. Spradley · 1971

Both explore deviance

64% genome match

Patients, physicians and illness

E. Gartly Jaco · 1958

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Moral mazes

Robert Jackall · 1988

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Power and ideology in education

Jerome Karabel · 1977

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

Le suicide

Émile Durkheim · 1850

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

Complaints and disorders

Barbara Ehrenreich · 1973

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

The sexual scene

John H. Gagnon · 1970

Both explore deviance

66% genome match

Dangerous sexualities

Frank Mort · 1984

Both explore deviance

65% genome match

How Sex Changed

Joanne J. Meyerowitz · 2002

Both explore identity

61% genome match

Illness as metaphor

Susan Sontag · 1978

Both explore stigma

58% genome match