Books like David Copperfield
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens reads as immersive, warm. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles · 2021
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861
Shares the escape + vornate thread
83% genome match
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · 2007
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Evelina
Fanny Burney · 1778
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 1817
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 1943
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
73% genome match
World's Fair
E. L. Doctorow · 1985
Shares the human + escape thread
69% genome match
The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz · 2015
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shares the human + escape thread
69% genome match
Bone Gap
Laura Ruby · 2015
Shares the human + escape thread
69% genome match
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