Books like Delhi

Delhi by Khushwant Singh reads as epic, sensual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Balthazar

Lawrence Durrell · 1957

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra · 1997

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Dhākirat al-jasad

Ahlem Mosteghanemi · 1993

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the human + unreliable thread

72% genome match

Museum

Rita Dove · 1983

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Indian ink

Tom Stoppard · 1995

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The white hotel

D. M. Thomas · 1981

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie · 2003

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Enciklopedija mrtvih

Danilo Kiš · 1983

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner · 2009

Shares the human + unreliable thread

71% genome match

The Tale of the Body Thief

Anne Rice · 1992

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Tigana

Guy Gavriel Kay · 1990

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match