Books like 人間失格
人間失格 by 太宰 治 reads as bleak, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Extension du domaine de la lutte
Michel Houellebecq · 1994
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72% genome match
En attendant Godot
Samuel Beckett · 1952
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69% genome match
Life for Sale
三島由紀夫 · 2019
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69% genome match
Novels (La chute / L'Étranger)
Albert Camus · 1977
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69% genome match
De Lagrimas Y De Santos
Emil Cioran · 1986
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76% genome match
Intet
Janne Teller · 2010
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69% genome match
El llano en llamas
Juan Rulfo · 1953
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72% genome match
Short stories
Tadeusz Borowski · 1959
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71% genome match
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee · 1980
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69% genome match
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville · 1966
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69% genome match
Il conformista
Alberto Moravia · 1951
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71% genome match
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles · 1948
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69% genome match
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