Books like Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi reads as analytical, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

Both explore identity & community

71% genome match

The Best We Could Do

Thi Bui

Both explore identity

70% genome match

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama · 1995

Both explore identity

68% genome match

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Guy Delisle · 2003

Both explore politics

66% genome match

All God's children need traveling shoes

Maya Angelou · 1986

Both explore identity

68% genome match

The Souls of Black Folk

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois · 1907

Both explore identity & politics

63% genome match

Drawing blood

Molly Crabapple · 2015

Both explore art & politics

69% genome match

The Arab of the Future

Riad Sattouf

Both explore identity & politics

68% genome match

Black like me

John Howard Griffin · 1960

Both explore identity

61% genome match

A choice of weapons

Gordon Parks · 1966

Both explore art

63% genome match

White Girls

Hilton Als · 2013

Both explore identity

64% genome match

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

Both explore identity

59% genome match