Books like How High We Go in the Dark
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu reads as melancholic, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Grief is the thing with feathers
Max Porter · 2015
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 1948
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders · 2017
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx · 1993
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2023
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
71% genome match
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Human Acts
Han Kang · 2014
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
Shares the grief thread
73% genome match
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong · 2022
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1966
Shares the grief thread
69% genome match
Radiance
Catherynne M. Valente · 2001
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
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