Books like As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner reads as experimental, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor · 1952

Shares the maximal + vvoice thread

83% genome match

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

Shares the maximal + vvoice thread

71% genome match

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner · 1929

Shares the maximal thread

83% genome match

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison · 1977

Shares the maximal + vvoice thread

72% genome match

Ubik

Philip K. Dick · 1969

Shares the maximal + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Randall Kenan · 1992

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns · 1984

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee · 1962

Shares the maximal + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Peau

Dorothy Allison · 1994

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein · 1961

Shares the maximal + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Ellen Foster

Kaye Gibbons · 1987

Shares the vvoice thread

69% genome match