Books like A river runs through it
A river runs through it by Norman Maclean reads as elegiac, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
A river runs through it and other stories
Norman Maclean · 1976
Shares the grief + vspare thread
85% genome match
The Light of the World
Elizabeth Alexander · 2015
Shares the grief + vspare thread
78% genome match
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2021
Shares the grief + vspare thread
74% genome match
Heaven's Coast
Mark Doty · 1996
Shares the grief + vspare thread
76% genome match
Ancestors
William Maxwell · 1971
Shares the grief + vspare thread
75% genome match
Name All the Animals
Alison Smith · 2004
Shares the grief + vspare thread
74% genome match
Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey · 2020
Shares the grief + vspare thread
73% genome match
The bill from my father
Bernard Cooper · 2006
Shares the grief + vspare thread
73% genome match
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson · 2016
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
The boys of my youth
Jo Ann Beard · 1998
Shares the grief + vspare thread
72% genome match
Scaphandre et le papillon
Jean-Dominique Bauby · 1997
Shares the grief + vspare thread
69% genome match
Jane
Maggie Nelson · 2005
Shares the grief + vspare thread
70% genome match
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