Books like Get Shorty

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard reads as witty, cynical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Maximum Bob

Elmore Leonard · 1991

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69% genome match

The friends of Eddie Coyle

George V. Higgins · 1972

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83% genome match

Speed-the-plow

David Mamet · 1987

Shares the vspare + vvoice thread

69% genome match

Junky

William S. Burroughs · 1953

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69% genome match

You get so alone at times that it just makes sense

Charles Bukowski · 1986

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69% genome match

Gates of Eden

Ethan Coen · 1998

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69% genome match

Winter's Bone

Daniel Woodrell · 2006

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69% genome match

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver · 1981

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69% genome match

Tex

S. E. Hinton · 1979

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69% genome match

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Charles Ray Willeford · 1971

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69% genome match

Death Wish

Iceberg Slim · 1977

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69% genome match

Brownsville

Oscar Casares · 2003

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69% genome match