Books like An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro reads as introspective, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Held
Hisham Matar · 2024
Shares the history + quiet thread
74% genome match
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shares the quiet + history thread
75% genome match
Kokoro
Natsume Soseki · 1914
Shares the quiet + vspare thread
69% genome match
De aanslag
Harry Mulisch · 1982
Shares the history + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Tsar of Love and Techno
Anthony Marra
Shares the quiet + history thread
84% genome match
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 1992
Shares the history thread
69% genome match
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Shares the quiet + vspare thread
69% genome match
Here
Richard McGuire
Shares the quiet + history thread
69% genome match
The Hunger Angel
Herta Müller · 2012
Shares the history thread
69% genome match
The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West · 1918
Shares the history + vspare thread
69% genome match
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1948
Shares the quiet + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng · 2011
Shares the history + vspare thread
74% genome match
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