Books like Foundation
Foundation by Isaac Asimov reads as epic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov · 1952
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91% genome match
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke · 1968
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69% genome match
Here
Richard McGuire
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69% genome match
Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon · 1930
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69% genome match
1984
George Orwell · 1949
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69% genome match
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
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69% genome match
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
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69% genome match
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin · 2008
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83% genome match
The war that Saved my Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2015
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69% genome match
The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis · 2000
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69% genome match
Ring Around the Sun
Clifford D. Simak · 1953
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69% genome match
Night of the Ninjas
Mary Pope Osborne · 1995
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69% genome match
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