Books like Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King reads as melancholic, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

A Separate Peace

John Knowles · 1959

Shares the comingofage + quiet thread

84% genome match

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

Shares the quiet + comingofage thread

69% genome match

The Giver

Lois Lowry · 1993

Shares the quiet + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami · 1987

Shares the quiet + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri

Shares the quiet + comingofage thread

82% genome match

World's Fair

E. L. Doctorow · 1985

Shares the history + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Very far away from anywhere else

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1976

Shares the comingofage thread

71% genome match

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith · 1943

Shares the history + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the history + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Empire of Silence

Christopher Ruocchio

Shares the quiet + history thread

69% genome match

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

Shares the history + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb · 1995

Shares the quiet + comingofage thread

69% genome match