Books like Grief is the thing with feathers

Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter reads as melancholic, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders · 2017

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

83% genome match

How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell · 2020

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong · 2022

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Thân phận của tình yêu

Bảo Ninh · 1990

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Gob's grief

Chris Adrian · 2000

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe · 1845

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf · 1927

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx · 1993

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

69% genome match