Books like Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss reads as witty, didactic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

Ryan North · 1999

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Stiff

Mary Roach · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The Know-It-All

Jacobs, A. J. · 2004

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry (Cartoon Guide To...)

Larry Gonick · 2005

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Blue Latitudes

Tony Horwitz · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Following the Equator

Mark Twain · 1897

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Motoring with Mohammed

Eric Hansen · 1991

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

How to be an alien

George Mikes · 1946

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Round Ireland with a fridge

Tony Hawks · 1998

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Getting Stoned With Savages

J. Maarten Troost · 2006

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

On Writing Well

William Zinsser · 1976

Both explore communication

58% genome match

The Victorian Internet

Tom Standage · 1998

Both explore communication

55% genome match