Books like Heidi

Heidi by Johanna Spyri reads as warm, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

Shares the hopeful thread

85% genome match

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Shares the hopeful thread

70% genome match

Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter

Shares the hopeful thread

77% genome match

Anne of Avonlea

L.M. Montgomery · 1909

Shares the hopeful thread

75% genome match

Rainbow Valley

Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1919

Shares the hopeful thread

76% genome match

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Shares the hopeful thread

80% genome match

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

Little men

Louisa May Alcott · 1885

Shares the hopeful thread

70% genome match

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Margaret Sidney · 1880

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match