Books like Exhalation
Exhalation by Ted Chiang reads as philosophical, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2002
Shares the quiet + lovetime thread
86% genome match
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Shares the human + quiet thread
83% genome match
The Nine-Chambered Heart
Janice Pariat · 2017
Shares the human + quiet thread
69% genome match
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 2022
Shares the quiet + lovetime thread
83% genome match
The Sixth Day and Other Tales
Primo Levi · 1990
Shares the human + vspare thread
70% genome match
Eva
Peter Dickinson · 1988
Shares the human + quiet thread
69% genome match
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany · 2014
Shares the human + quiet thread
69% genome match
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
Shares the quiet + human thread
69% genome match
The collected stories of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick · 1987
Shares the human + vspare thread
69% genome match
Little Mushroom
Shisi · 2022
Shares the human + quiet thread
69% genome match
Concrete
Paul Chadwick · 1990
Shares the human + quiet thread
69% genome match
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler · 1987
Shares the human + vspare thread
69% genome match
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