Books like Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee reads as lyrical, nostalgic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Far away and long ago

W. H. Hudson · 1918

Shares the vornate thread

78% genome match

A Child's Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas · 1953

Shares the vornate thread

83% genome match

Prospero's Cell

Lawrence Durrell · 1945

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The story of my heart

Richard Jefferies · 1883

Shares the vornate thread

73% genome match

An American childhood

Annie Dillard · 1987

Shares the vornate thread

72% genome match

My father's glory ; and, My mother's castle

Marcel Pagnol · 1986

Both explore childhood & nature

69% genome match

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Ake

Wole Soyinka · 1982

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Mi país inventado

Isabel Allende · 2003

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Under the eye of the clock

Christopher Nolan (Irish author) · 1987

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

A backward glance

Edith Wharton · 1934

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Les confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match