Books like A Suitable Boy
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth reads as immersive, epic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope · 1875
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69% genome match
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese · 2023
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84% genome match
Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh
Лев Толстой · 1882
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70% genome match
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871
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69% genome match
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
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69% genome match
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
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69% genome match
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905
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69% genome match
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869
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69% genome match
The Bostonians
Henry James · 1885
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69% genome match
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862
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69% genome match
The old wives' tale
Arnold Bennett · 1900
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69% genome match
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
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69% genome match
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