Books like Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes reads as emotional, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Still Alice

Lisa Genova · 2007

Shares the grief + comingofage thread

83% genome match

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2015

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

Both explore science

80% genome match

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid · 2017

Shares the grief thread

70% genome match

Last Orders

Graham Swift · 2012

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

Shares the grief thread

73% genome match

The Measure

Nikki Erlick · 2022

Shares the grief thread

73% genome match

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera · 2017

Shares the comingofage + grief thread

69% genome match

The book of M

Peng Shepherd · 2018

Shares the grief thread

70% genome match

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger · 2003

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

Very far away from anywhere else

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1976

Shares the comingofage thread

69% genome match

I Fell in Love with Hope

Lancali · 2022

Shares the grief + comingofage thread

69% genome match