Books like Catch-22

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller reads as dark, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Blindness

Jose Saramago · 1995

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · 1963

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 2003

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre · 1938

Shares the vhypno thread

70% genome match

The Fall

Albert Camus · 1956

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Trial

Franz Kafka · 1925

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

The hothouse

Harold Pinter · 1980

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Kosmos

Witold Gombrowicz · 1965

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · 2016

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

砂の女

Abe Kōbō · 1962

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match