Books like Prisons we choose to live inside

Prisons we choose to live inside by Doris Lessing reads as critical, insightful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The long march

Simone de Beauvoir · 1958

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell

George Orwell · 1968

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt · 1958

Same philosophy feel

83% genome match

Escape from Freedom

Erich Fromm · 1941

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Karl Marx

Isaiah Berlin · 1939

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Feminist theory

bell hooks · 1984

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women

Naomi Wolf · 1990

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Today's isms

Alan O. Ebenstein · 1954

Same philosophy feel

56% genome match

Invisible Women

Caroline Criado Perez · 2019

Same nonfiction feel

53% genome match

La politique du mâle

Kate Millett · 1968

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

Democracy ancient and modern

M. I. Finley · 1973

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Woman in sexist society ; studies in power and powerlessness

Vivian Gornick · 1971

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match