Books like Are You My Mother?

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel reads as analytical, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Une femme

Annie Ernaux · 1987

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Epileptic

David B.

Shares the human + unreliable thread

78% genome match

The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston

Shares the human + unreliable thread

74% genome match

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

As a Cartoonist

Noah Van Sciver · 2022

Shares the human + unreliable thread

73% genome match

Destruction of the father reconstruction of the father

Louise Bourgeois · 1998

Shares the human + unreliable thread

70% genome match

The Best We Could Do

Thi Bui

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

I'm supposed to protect you from all this

Nadja Spiegelman · 2016

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Running in the Family

Michael Ondaatje

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Lessico famigliare

Natalia Ginzburg · 1963

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match