Books like The Divided Self

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing reads as analytical, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber · 2021

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

Reason & violence

R. D. Laing · 1964

Both explore existentialism & mental illness

53% genome match

On violence

Hannah Arendt · 1969

Same philosophy feel

49% genome match

Styles of Radical Will

Susan Sontag · 1969

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

Necessary illusions

Noam Chomsky · 1989

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

The Myth of Mental Illness

Thomas Stephen Szasz · 1961

Same nonfiction feel

47% genome match

The McDonaldization of Society

George Ritzer · 1993

Same nonfiction feel

46% genome match

Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

Byung-Chul Han · 2010

Same philosophy feel

45% genome match

Système de la mode

Roland Barthes · 1967

Same nonfiction feel

47% genome match

Forbidden knowledge

Roger Shattuck · 1996

Same nonfiction feel

43% genome match

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Sexual Cultures)

Samuel R. Delany · 1999

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

Gender and Power

R. W. Connell · 1987

Same nonfiction feel

46% genome match