Books like The Jakarta Method

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins reads as critical, somber. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Cia

William Blum · 1995

Both explore geopolitics & cold war

78% genome match

The fateful triangle

Noam Chomsky · 1983

Both explore us foreign policy & human rights

68% genome match

Good Muslim, bad Muslim

Mahmood Mamdani · 2004

Both explore us foreign policy & political violence

65% genome match

Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn · 1980

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

JFK and the unspeakable

James W. Douglass · 2008

Both explore cold war

58% genome match

How to Hide an Empire

Daniel Immerwahr · 2019

Both explore geopolitics

57% genome match

Confessions of an economic hit man

Perkins, John · 2004

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match

Language, thought, and reality

Benjamin Lee Whorf · 1956

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

How to watch TV news

Neil Postman · 1992

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Sideshow

William Shawcross · 1979

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The trial of Henry Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens · 2001

Both explore human rights

56% genome match