Books like Hong lou meng

Hong lou meng by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. reads as melancholic, epic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

83% genome match

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1891

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Shares the quiet + maximal thread

69% genome match

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert · 1969

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Shares the quiet + escape thread

69% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

L'homme qui rit

Victor Hugo · 1800

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

70% genome match

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak · 1957

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

72% genome match

Romance of the three kingdoms

Luo Guanzhong · 1644

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Shares the quiet + escape thread

69% genome match

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 1860

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match