Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Informed Heart

Looking for read-alikes for The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim? These 24 titles overlap in Political Freedom, Modern, Sociology, and 20th Century and overall literary texture.

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Top related books to The Informed Heart

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Informed Heart.

Centuries of Genocide Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

Samuel Totten

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

Black and Green The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America

Brian Dooley

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

Turks Across Empires Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914

James H. Meyer

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

The Picnic An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

Matthew Longo

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

I Hope I Don’t Intrude Privacy and Its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-century Britain

David Vincent

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

Plaza of Sacrifices Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico

Elaine Carey

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

The Book of Revelations The Secrets Women Keep and Tell, 1954-2024

Juliet Nicolson

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

Voices of the Nakba A Living History of Palestine

Diana Allan

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#10

Armed Struggle The History of the IRA

Richard English

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#11

The Soviet Union Second Edition

R. W. Davies

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#12

The Finest Hotel in Kabul A People’s History of Afghanistan

Lyse Doucet

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#13

On Liberty — John Stuart Mill

JOHN STUART. MILL

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

#14

The Tsar’s Armenians A Minority in Late Imperial Russia

Onur Önol

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#15

Cuba, the United States, and Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975

John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#16

Eyes Across the Channel French Revolutions, Party History and British Writing, 1830-1882

Clare A. Simmons

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

#17

The Way of Bitterness Soviet Russia, 1920

Princess Peter Wolkonsky

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#18

Paris After the Liberation 1944 – 1949

Antony Beevor

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#19

Age of Anger A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

#20

Rethinking the Body in Global Politics Bodies, Body Politics, and the Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic

Kandida Purnell

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

#21

A House in the Mountains The Women who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#22

Sisters in the Struggle African American Women in the Civil Rights-black Power Movement

Bettye Collier-Thomas

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

#23

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

James Fitzjames Stephen

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • Sociology

#24

The New Spaniards Second Edition

John Hooper

Themes: Political Freedom • Modern • 20th Century

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Political Freedom, Modern, Sociology — the same threads that run through The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim. Among the authors featured: Samuel Totten, Brian Dooley, James H. Meyer, Matthew Longo, and others.