Books like Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1891

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

83% genome match

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 1860

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1985

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

72% genome match

L'homme qui rit

Victor Hugo · 1800

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Shares the quiet thread

79% genome match

The Ashes of a God

Francis William Bain · 2018

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Shares the lovetime thread

69% genome match

Possession

A.S. Byatt · 1990

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match