Books like Cereus blooms at night

Cereus blooms at night by Shani Mootoo reads as haunting, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Traversée de la mangrove

Maryse Condé · 1989

Shares the human + unreliable thread

74% genome match

Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

Shares the human + unreliable thread

71% genome match

Autobiographie de ma mère

Jamaica Kincaid · 1996

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Mysterious skin

Scott Heim · 1995

Shares the human + unreliable thread

76% genome match

The Deep

Rivers Solomon · 2019

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Fall On Your Knees:A Novel

Ann-Marie MacDonald · 1996

Shares the human + unreliable thread

77% genome match

Travesuras de la niña mala

Mario Vargas Llosa · 2006

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The People of Paper

Salvador Plascencia · 2005

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

No confession, no mass

Jennifer Perrine · 2015

Shares the human + unreliable thread

78% genome match

Las armas secretas

Julio Cortázar · 1963

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Justine

Lawrence Durrell · 1957

Shares the human + unreliable thread

75% genome match

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina García · 1992

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match