Books like City of Night
City of Night by John Rechy reads as bleak, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Beneath the skin
John Rechy · 2004
Shares the vspare thread
82% genome match
Wrong
Dennis Cooper · 1992
Shares the vspare thread
73% genome match
La Virgen de los Sicarios / Our Lady of the Assassins
Fernando Vallejo · 1994
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 1937
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
Crash
J. G. Ballard · 1973
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Song of the silent snow
Hubert Selby, Jr. · 1986
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2014
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis · 2015
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
Lost at Sea
Bryan Lee O'Malley · 2003
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Tim Burton · 1997
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Zoo Story
Edward Albee · 1959
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Richard Yates · 1998
Shares the outsider + vspare thread
69% genome match
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