Books like A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens reads as epic, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Shares the power + vornate thread

83% genome match

Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal · 1902

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Works (Child's History of England / Tale of Two Cities)

Charles Dickens · 1868

Shares the vornate thread

73% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the power + vornate thread

79% genome match

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

Лев Толстой · 1882

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Germinal

Émile Zola · 1885

Shares the power thread

69% genome match

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak · 1957

Shares the power + vornate thread

77% genome match

Marianela

Benito Pérez Galdós · 1883

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Joseph Balsamo

Alexandre Dumas · 1850

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth · 1993

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Salammbô

Gustave Flaubert · 1863

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

La casa de los espíritus

Isabel Allende · 1982

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match