Books like You Can't Win

You Can't Win by Jack Black reads as gritty, cynical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

A Russian Journal

John Steinbeck · 1999

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Quarto de Despejo

Carolina Maria de Jesus · 1960

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell · 1933

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Manchild in the promised land

Claude Brown · 1937

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

The Road

Jack London · 1907

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Poverty Safari

Darren McGarvey · 2017

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Blue Rage, Black Redemption

Ajamu Niamke Kamara · 2003

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

The Basketball diaries

Jim Carroll · 1978

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington · 2002

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

American Junkie

Tom Hansen · 2010

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Always Running

Luis J. Rodriguez · 1993

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Peter Kropotkin · 1899

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match