Books like Crow Lake
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson reads as melancholic, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
A Bird in the House
Margaret Laurence · 1963
Shares the escape + grief thread
69% genome match
How to breathe underwater
Julie Orringer · 2003
Shares the escape + grief thread
69% genome match
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Shares the grief thread
73% genome match
Love, Aubrey
Suzanne M. LaFleur · 2009
Shares the escape + grief thread
71% genome match
Carried away
Alice Munro · 2006
Shares the grief thread
75% genome match
Alone with you
Marisa Silver · 2010
Shares the grief thread
70% genome match
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski · 2008
Shares the grief thread
71% genome match
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Pippa passes
Rumer Godden · 1994
Shares the escape + grief thread
71% genome match
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett · 2023
Shares the grief thread
69% genome match
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
Shares the grief thread
70% genome match
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