Books like A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness reads as poignant, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
More Than This
Patrick Ness · 2013
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
We are okay
Nina LaCour · 2017
Shares the grief + vspare thread
70% genome match
Norwegian Wood
村上春樹 · 1987
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Lost Boy
Greg Ruth · 2013
Shares the vspare thread
71% genome match
How to breathe underwater
Julie Orringer · 2003
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey · 2012
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
The five stages of Andrew Brawley
Shaun David Hutchinson · 2015
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez · 2018
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid · 2017
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
Into the Grey
Celine Kiernan · 2011
Shares the grief thread
69% genome match
Life
Mal Peet · 2011
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
Alone with you
Marisa Silver · 2010
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
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