Books like A boy's own story

A boy's own story by Edmund White reads as introspective, melancholy. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Persepolis 1 & 2

Marjane Satrapi · 2003

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Moody · 1968

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

T. Kira Madden · 2019

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

73% genome match

Baby driver

Jan Kerouac · 1981

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

A Feather on the Breath of God

Sigrid Nunez · 1995

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

70% genome match

Small Fry

Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford · 2021

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Young Man from the Provinces

Alan Helms · 1995

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Zami

Audre Lorde · 1982

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

This Boy's Life

Tobias Wolff · 1989

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Honky

Dalton Conley · 2000

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match