Books like Fingersmith
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters reads as suspenseful, atmospheric. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The dead secret
Wilkie Collins · 1857
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Lady Audley's secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862
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69% genome match
Behind a Mask, or, A Woman's Power
Louisa May Alcott · 1975
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69% genome match
Affinity
Sarah Waters · 1999
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83% genome match
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
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69% genome match
A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz · 2006
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69% genome match
Taltos
Anne Rice
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69% genome match
Trial for Murder
Charles Dickens · 2008
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 1898
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The house by the church-yard
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1863
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69% genome match
The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls
Emilie Autumn · 2009
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Rebecca, A Play
Daphne du Maurier · 1939
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
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