Books like Death's Other Kingdom

Death's Other Kingdom by Gamel Woolsey reads as melancholic, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The farming of bones

Edwidge Danticat · 1998

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79% genome match

Briar Rose

Jane Yolen · 1992

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79% genome match

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra · 2013

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75% genome match

On the Beach

Nevil Shute

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69% genome match

Autobiographie de ma mère

Jamaica Kincaid · 1996

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73% genome match

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1985

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69% genome match

1984 (adaptation)

Michael Dean · 2003

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69% genome match

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

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69% genome match

The ones who walk away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1973

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69% genome match

Devastation Road

Jason Hewitt · 2016

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78% genome match

All the Truth That's in Me

Julie Berry · 2013

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74% genome match

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng · 2011

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71% genome match