Books like Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton reads as melancholic, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Bunner Sisters

Edith Wharton · 2000

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Sounder

William Howard Armstrong · 1971

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout · 2016

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69% genome match

Nada

Carmen Laforet · 1945

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69% genome match

Under the feet of Jesus

Helena María Viramontes · 1995

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69% genome match

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy · 1895

Shares the escape thread

83% genome match

Make Lemonade

Virginia Euwer Wolff · 1993

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69% genome match

That was then, this is now

S. E. Hinton · 1971

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse · 1997

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck · 1937

Shares the vspare thread

83% genome match

Howards End

E.M. Forster · 1910

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match