Books like Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens reads as emotional, immersive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Novels (Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)

Charles Dickens · 1977

Shares the escape + vornate thread

71% genome match

Adam Bede

George Eliot · 1859

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The way of all flesh

Samuel Butler · 1900

Shares the escape + vornate thread

69% genome match

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Shares the escape + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 1905

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1855

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike · 1996

Shares the escape + vornate thread

69% genome match

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the escape + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth · 1993

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

Лев Толстой · 1882

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match