Books like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer reads as emotional, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders · 2017

Shares the grief + maximal thread

69% genome match

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan · 2010

Shares the maximal + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Jazz

Toni Morrison

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

83% genome match

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf · 1927

Shares the grief + maximal thread

69% genome match

How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

74% genome match

No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood

Shares the vhypno thread

76% genome match

Wrong Norma

Anne Carson · 2024

Shares the maximal + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

Shares the maximal + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk · 1999

Shares the maximal + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Citizen

Claudia Rankine · 2014

Shares the maximal + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match