Books like How I learned to drive
How I learned to drive by Paula Vogel reads as poignant, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Blackbird
David Harrower · 2005
Shares the vspare thread
71% genome match
How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff · 2004
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
A Light in the Storm
Karen Hesse · 1999
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
Sounder
William Howard Armstrong · 1971
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
How to breathe underwater
Julie Orringer · 2003
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki · 2014
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai · 2011
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Turning
Tim Winton · 2004
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Wanderer
Sharon Creech · 2000
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
A lie of the mind
Sam Shepard · 1986
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Three tall women
Edward Albee · 1995
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
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