Books like Gone With the Wind

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell reads as dramatic, sweeping. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

72% genome match

Lorna Doone

R. D. Blackmore · 1656

Shares the romance + vornate thread

72% genome match

Kenilworth

Sir Walter Scott · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

73% genome match

The Conqueror

Georgette Heyer · 1931

Shares the romance + vornate thread

70% genome match

Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona

Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1895

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Kingdom of Dreams

Judith McNaught

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Forever Amber

Kathleen Winsor · 1944

Shares the vornate thread

71% genome match

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare · 1600

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1951

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Crisis

Winston Churchill · 1901

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Senhora

José de Alencar · 1900

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match