Books like Dreaming in Cuban

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García reads as lyrical, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the human + unreliable thread

72% genome match

Travesuras de la niña mala

Mario Vargas Llosa · 2006

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The People of Paper

Salvador Plascencia · 2005

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Obsceno pájaro de la noche

José Donoso · 1973

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Shares the human + unreliable thread

83% genome match

Chronicle in Stone

Ismail Kadare · 1973

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The white hotel

D. M. Thomas · 1981

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Radiance

Catherynne M. Valente · 2001

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Tigana

Guy Gavriel Kay · 1990

Shares the human + unreliable thread

72% genome match

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra · 1997

Shares the human + unreliable thread

71% genome match

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise

Mahmoud Darwish · 2003

Shares the human + unreliable thread

70% genome match