Books like Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman reads as intimate, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson · 1919

Shares the outsider + quiet thread

69% genome match

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata · 1948

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

69% genome match

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda · 1924

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

69% genome match

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust · 1913

Shares the lovetime + vhypno thread

69% genome match

If Not, Winter

Sappho · 2002

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

71% genome match

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

83% genome match

Villette

Charlotte Bronte · 1853

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

69% genome match

I Wrote This For You and Only You

pleasefindthis · 2015

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 1925

Shares the lovetime + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2011

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

69% genome match

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1985

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

69% genome match