Books like Black rain

Black rain by Ibuse, Masuji reads as somber, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Last Day in Vietnam

Will Eisner · 2000

Shares the history + vspare thread

80% genome match

Sudʹba cheloveka

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov · 1957

Shares the history + vspare thread

82% genome match

De aanslag

Harry Mulisch · 1982

Shares the history + vspare thread

76% genome match

Skrawek czasu

Ida Fink · 1987

Shares the history + vspare thread

76% genome match

All That's Left to You

Ghassan Kanafani · 1990

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74% genome match

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng · 2011

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72% genome match

Tree by leaf

Cynthia Voigt · 1988

Shares the history + vspare thread

74% genome match

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra · 2013

Shares the history + vspare thread

71% genome match

When the emperor was divine

Julie Otsuka · 2002

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70% genome match

The longest memory

Fred D'Aguiar · 1994

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69% genome match

The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis · 2000

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69% genome match

Puhdistus

Sofi Oksanen · 2010

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71% genome match