Books like Ben Hur

Ben Hur by Lew Wallace reads as epic, dramatic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 1826

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The ballad of the white horse

Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1911

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69% genome match

Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona

Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1895

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69% genome match

The Talisman

Sir Walter Scott · 1800

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Alhambra

Washington Irving · 1800

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The bivouac; or, Stories of the Peninsular War

W. H. (William Hamilton) Maxwell · 1837

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott · 1819

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69% genome match

I promessi sposi

Alessandro Manzoni · 1800

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69% genome match

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch · 2006

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69% genome match

Kingdom Come

Mark Waid · 1996

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan · 1853

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69% genome match

Brisingr

Christopher Paolini · 2008

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69% genome match