Books like Dhalgren
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany reads as experimental, surreal. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Hogg
Samuel R. Delany · 1994
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69% genome match
Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson · 2003
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69% genome match
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Soft Machine
William S. Burroughs · 1961
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72% genome match
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson · 1992
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69% genome match
Disparition
Georges Perec · 1994
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
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69% genome match
I, etcetera
Susan Sontag · 1978
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Batman
Grant Morrison · 2008
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The gutter in the sky
Jean Genet · 1948
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
V.
Thomas Pynchon
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Kara Kitap
Orhan Pamuk · 1990
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
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