Books like Three cups of tea

Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson reads as inspiring, earnest. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers · 2009

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba · 2009

Shares the escape thread

70% genome match

Little Town on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1941

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Expedition Kon-Tiki

Thor Heyerdahl · 1949

Same nonfiction feel

67% genome match

Missoula

Jon Krakauer · 2015

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Lives on the boundary

Mike Rose · 1989

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai · 2013

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The push

Tommy Caldwell · 2017

Both explore perseverance

68% genome match

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Geoffrey Canada · 1995

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell · 1933

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The Other Wes Moore

Wes Moore · 2010

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Life on the color line

Gregory Howard Williams · 1995

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match