Books like A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole reads as witty, warm. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens · 1837

Shares the comic + vornate thread

72% genome match

Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra · 2017

Shares the vornate + vvoice thread

72% genome match

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Shares the vornate + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Right Ho, Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse · 1934

Shares the comic + hopeful thread

69% genome match

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson · 1971

Shares the comic + vvoice thread

83% genome match

Guards! Guards!

Terry Pratchett · 1989

Shares the comic + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Shares the comic + vornate thread

69% genome match

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut · 1973

Shares the comic + vvoice thread

69% genome match

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400

Shares the comic + vornate thread

69% genome match

Satyricon

Petronius · 1575

Shares the vornate + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726

Shares the comic + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Maria Semple · 2012

Shares the comic + hopeful thread

69% genome match