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Explore 24 books like Permanent Record by Edward Snowden — a handpicked selection united by Privacy & Surveillance, Social Activists, Personal Memoirs, and Political Science.

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Top related books to Permanent Record

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Targeted My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy — Brittany Kaiser

Targeted My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy

Brittany Kaiser

Themes: Privacy & Surveillance • Social Activists • Political Science

The Recruiter Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence — Douglas London

The Recruiter Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence

Themes: Privacy & Surveillance • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Small Town Girl — Donna McLean

Small Town Girl

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

My Own Story — Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Sara Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary — Sakine Cansiz

Sara Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Behind the Urals An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel — John Scott

Behind the Urals An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Living and Dying on the Factory Floor From the Outside in and the Inside Out — David C. Ranney

Living and Dying on the Factory Floor From the Outside in and the Inside Out

David C. Ranney

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA — Amaryllis Fox

Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Pocket Full of Pie — Thomas Clay Jr.

Pocket Full of Pie

Thomas Clay Jr.

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

The Words of My Father Love and Pain in Palestine — Yousef Bashir

The Words of My Father Love and Pain in Palestine

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Doppelganger A Trip Into the Mirror World — Naomi Klein

Doppelganger A Trip Into the Mirror World

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

No, You Shut Up Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America — Symone D. Sanders

No, You Shut Up Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America

Symone D. Sanders

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

A River in Darkness One Man’s Escape from North Korea — Masaji Ishikawa

A River in Darkness One Man’s Escape from North Korea

Masaji Ishikawa

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth — Sojourner Truth

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Patriot — Alexei Navalny

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Photographs of My Father A Lost Narrative from the Civil Rights Era — Paul Spike

Photographs of My Father A Lost Narrative from the Civil Rights Era

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

We’re Better Than this My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy — Elijah Cummings

We’re Better Than this My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

Elijah Cummings

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Heroes in My Head A Memoir — Judy Rebick

Heroes in My Head A Memoir

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened — Bill McKibben

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

A Woman of Firsts The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World — Edna Adan Ismail

A Woman of Firsts The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World

Edna Adan Ismail

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

Another Man’s War The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan — Sam Childers

Another Man’s War The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

The Book of Rosy A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border — Rosayra Pablo Cruz

The Book of Rosy A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

Rosayra Pablo Cruz

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

A Watchman in the Night What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America — Cal Thomas

A Watchman in the Night What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

In Order to Live A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom — Yeonmi Park

In Order to Live A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

Themes: Social Activists • Personal Memoirs • Political Science

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Permanent Record by Edward Snowden. Connected by Privacy & Surveillance, Social Activists, Personal Memoirs. Authors featured include Brittany Kaiser, Douglas London, Donna McLean, Emmeline Pankhurst, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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