Books like Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar by Juan Pablo Escobar reads as revealing, somber. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Children of the flames

Lucette Matalon Lagnado · 1991

Both explore family

68% genome match

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung · 2000

Both explore family

65% genome match

With the Old Breed

E.B. Sledge · 2007

Same nonfiction feel

65% genome match

Fear no evil

Anatoly Shcharansky · 1988

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

Anne Frank

Mirjam Pressler · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

65% genome match

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom · 1971

Same memoir feel

63% genome match

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright · 1900

Both explore legacy

64% genome match

Twelve years a slave

Solomon Northup · 1853

Same memoir feel

63% genome match

Mercury and me

Jim Hutton · 1994

Both explore legacy

62% genome match

Black like me

John Howard Griffin · 1960

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

Killing Pablo

Mark Bowden · 2001

Both explore crime

50% genome match

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass · 1845

Same memoir feel

62% genome match