Books like Habibi

Habibi by Craig Thompson reads as melancholic, profound. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

John Donne Poetry

John Donne · 1633

Shares the romance + faith thread

69% genome match

The Wild Party

Art Spiegelman · 1994

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Sonnets

William Shakespeare · 1609

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Justine

Lawrence Durrell · 1957

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Undine, eine Erzählung

Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué · 1845

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1901

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Meghadūta

Kālidāsa · 1813

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Les Amities Particulaires

Roger Peyrefitte · 1945

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, vol 1

Emil Ferris · 2017

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra · 1997

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Written on the Body

Jeanette Winterson · 1992

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match