Books like Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · 1838
Shares the escape + vornate thread
69% genome match
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2011
Shares the quiet + ambition thread
71% genome match
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
Shares the quiet + escape thread
73% genome match
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
Adam Bede
George Eliot · 1859
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
75% genome match
Dominicana
Angie Cruz · 2020
Shares the escape + quiet thread
69% genome match
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848
Shares the ambition + vornate thread
73% genome match
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
Shares the escape + quiet thread
69% genome match
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1985
Shares the quiet + ambition thread
73% genome match
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden · 1997
Shares the quiet + ambition thread
69% genome match
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte · 1847
Shares the escape + ambition thread
69% genome match
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 1895
Shares the ambition + escape thread
73% genome match
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