Books like Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reads as melancholic, passionate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Salomé

Oscar Wilde · 1893

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Poems and ballads

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1866

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Gedichte

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1700

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Lettres portugaises

Gabriel de Guilleragues · 1669

Shares the romance + vornate thread

77% genome match

Don Juan Tenorio

José Zorrilla · 1892

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The lady of the lake

Sir Walter Scott · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

New Tales of the Vampires

Anne Rice · 2003

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Selected poetry

John Keats · 1959

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Chatterton

Alfred de Vigny · 1835

Shares the vornate thread

74% genome match

Lucile

Robert Bulwer Lytton · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe · 1845

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Romeo and Juliet, 1750

William Shakespeare · 1750

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match