Books like Bring Up the Bodies
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel reads as immersive, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Shares the ambition + power thread
88% genome match
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel · 2020
Shares the ambition + power thread
88% genome match
Augustus
John Williams
Shares the ambition + power thread
83% genome match
Imperium
Robert Harris · 2006
Shares the ambition + power thread
83% genome match
The First Man in Rome
Colleen McCullough · 1990
Shares the ambition + power thread
72% genome match
Burr
Gore Vidal · 1973
Shares the ambition + power thread
71% genome match
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Shares the ambition + power thread
69% genome match
I, Claudius
Robert Graves · 1934
Shares the ambition + power thread
69% genome match
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand · 1936
Shares the ambition + power thread
77% genome match
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
Shares the power thread
69% genome match
Nana
Émile Zola
Shares the ambition thread
82% genome match
The Store
T. S. Stribling
Shares the ambition thread
84% genome match
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