Books like Ars Amatoria

Ars Amatoria by Ovid reads as playful, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

If Not, Winter

Sappho · 2002

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1554

Shares the romance thread

74% genome match

Elegiae

Sextus Propertius · 1780

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

Contes et nouvelles en vers

Jean de La Fontaine · 1685

Shares the romance thread

75% genome match

Heroides

Ovid · 1502

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

Evgeniĭ Onegin

Александр Сергеевич Пушкин · 1833

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare · 2014

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

How They Met, and Other Stories

David Levithan · 2008

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson · 1989

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

E.E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings · 1965

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence · 1877

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match

Le barbier de Séville

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · 1776

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match