Books like Housekeeping

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson reads as lyrical, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday · 2021

Shares the human + unreliable thread

85% genome match

Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke · 1930

Shares the human + unreliable thread

76% genome match

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

Shares the human + unreliable thread

70% genome match

Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo · 1955

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski · 2008

Shares the human + unreliable thread

81% genome match

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

Shares the human + unreliable thread

79% genome match

Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

Shares the human + unreliable thread

81% genome match

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong · 2022

Shares the human + unreliable thread

77% genome match

Au Fond de la rivière

Jamaica Kincaid · 1983

Shares the human + unreliable thread

80% genome match

Orbital

Samantha Harvey · 2023

Shares the human + grief thread

75% genome match

Winter in the blood

James Welch · 1974

Shares the human + unreliable thread

72% genome match

The Gathering

Anne Enright

Shares the unreliable + grief thread

73% genome match