Books like The Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber reads as provocative, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott · 1998

Same nonfiction feel

51% genome match

Modernity and the Holocaust

Zygmunt Bauman · 1989

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

Forbidden knowledge

Roger Shattuck · 1996

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The creation of patriarchy

Gerda Lerner · 1986

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Both explore political theory

62% genome match

Revolutions in Reverse

David Graeber · 2011

Same nonfiction feel

62% genome match

Flesh and Stone

Richard Sennett · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Le suicide

Émile Durkheim · 1850

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

City of Dreadful Delight

Judith R. Walkowitz · 1992

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Sexuality, gender and power

Anna G. Jónasdóttir · 2010

Both explore political theory

62% genome match

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

Wendy Brown · 2019

Both explore political theory

62% genome match