Books like Soul on ice

Soul on ice by Eldridge Cleaver reads as defiant, polemical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Native sons

James Baldwin · 2004

Both explore race & masculinity

66% genome match

Soledad Brother

George L. Jackson · 1970

Both explore incarceration & revolution

74% genome match

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

Both explore race

63% genome match

Manchild in the promised land

Claude Brown · 1937

Both explore race

61% genome match

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Geoffrey Canada · 1995

Both explore race

61% genome match

Nigger

Dick Gregory · 1965

Same memoir feel

60% genome match

Makes Me Wanna Holler

Nathan McCall · 1994

Both explore masculinity

62% genome match

You can't be neutral on a moving train

Howard Zinn · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The Penguin Essays of George Orwell

George Orwell · 1984

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Why We Can't Wait

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1963

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

Angela Y. Davis · 2015

Both explore race & incarceration

67% genome match

The Sun Does Shine

Anthony Ray Hinton · 2018

Both explore race

55% genome match