Books like Cell

Cell by Stephen King reads as dark, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 1954

Shares the collapse thread

69% genome match

The Bachman Books (Long Walk / Rage / Roadwork / Running Man)

Stephen King · 1985

Shares the collapse thread

75% genome match

The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · 2014

Shares the collapse thread

71% genome match

The Walking Dead Volume 2

Robert Kirkman · 2004

Shares the collapse thread

71% genome match

The strain

Guillermo del Toro · 2009

Shares the collapse thread

69% genome match

'48

James Herbert · 1996

Shares the collapse thread

69% genome match

Battle Royale

Koushun Takami

Shares the collapse thread

81% genome match

The Long Walk

Richard Bachman · 1999

Shares the collapse thread

76% genome match

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney · 1978

Same sci-fi feel

63% genome match

Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

Shares the collapse thread

73% genome match

The Fearing

John FD Taff · 2021

Shares the collapse thread

80% genome match

Dawn of the dead

George A. Romero · 2004

Both explore survival

62% genome match