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Books like Gang Leader for a Day
The best books like Gang Leader for a Day are Poverty, by America, Freakonomics, and Outliers: The Story of Success. Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh is about urban poverty, ethnographic research, community and power. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Poverty, by America
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Matthew Desmond · Economics
Poverty, by America is Matthew Desmond's follow-up to Evicted, and it makes a more explicit and polemical argument: poverty in the United States is not a natural condition or a problem of insufficient resources.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Freakonomics
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · Economics
Freakonomics is economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner's argument that economics — properly understood as the study of incentives — can explain things that look, on the surface, like they have nothing to do with money.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Outliers: The Story of Success
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology
Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional success is less a product of individual genius or drive than it is of hidden advantages, timing, and accumulated opportunity.
A kindred memoir read.
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- A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Memoir
Born a Crime is Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up mixed-race in South Africa during the final years of apartheid and its chaotic aftermath.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - 10% Happier
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Dan Harris · Memoir
10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - A Grief Observed
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · Memoir
Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah · Memoir
Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when the Sierra Leone civil war reached his village and he was separated from his family.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - A Man for All Markets
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Edward O. Thorp · Memoir
A Man for All Markets is Edward Thorp's memoir of a life spent finding mathematical edges — first in casinos and later in financial markets.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - A Promised Land
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Barack Obama · Memoir
A Promised Land is the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, covering his 2008 campaign through the first two and a half years of his presidency, ending with the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
A kindred memoir read.
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Books like Gang Leader for a Day: quick answers
What are the best books like Gang Leader for a Day?
The best books like Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh are Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Gang Leader for a Day, such as urban poverty, ethnographic research, community and power.
What should I read after Gang Leader for a Day?
A natural next read after Gang Leader for a Day is Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. A kindred memoir read. Other strong choices are Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
What books are similar to Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh?
Gang Leader for a Day centers on urban poverty, ethnographic research, community and power. Books with a similar feel include Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, 10% Happier by Dan Harris — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
