Books like Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard reads as stark, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Short stories

Tadeusz Borowski · 1959

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 1968

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

I am the Cheese

Robert Cormier · 1977

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Traces

Ida Fink · 1997

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing in America ; The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster, and In watermelon sugar

Richard Brautigan · 1968

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

De aanslag

Harry Mulisch · 1982

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · 1963

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

채식주의자

Han Kang · 2007

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

How much of these hills is gold

C Pam Zhang · 2020

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Tricks

Ellen Hopkins · 2009

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Walkabout

James Vance Marshall · 1959

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match