Books like Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville reads as melancholic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka · 1952

Shares the vspare thread

73% genome match

Novels (La chute / L'Étranger)

Albert Camus · 1977

Shares the vspare thread

72% genome match

San Manuel Bueno, mártir

Miguel de Unamuno · 1933

Shares the quiet + vspare thread

70% genome match

Die Stadt hinter dem Strom

Hermann Kasack · 1947

Shares the vspare thread

74% genome match

Novelle per un anno

Luigi Pirandello · 1900

Shares the quiet + vspare thread

70% genome match

A Friend of Kafka

Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1962

Shares the quiet + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Box Man

Abe Kōbō · 1975

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

The man outside

Wolfgang Borchert · 1952

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Homo Faber

Max Frisch · 1957

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

En attendant Godot

Samuel Beckett · 1952

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

人間失格

太宰 治 · 1948

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Versprechen

Friedrich Dürrenmatt · 1959

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match