Books like How I Live Now

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff reads as poignant, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki · 2014

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

76% genome match

How to breathe underwater

Julie Orringer · 2003

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

73% genome match

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Shyam Selvadurai · 2005

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

71% genome match

The Wanderer

Sharon Creech · 2000

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

70% genome match

From the notebooks of Melanin Sun

Jacqueline Woodson · 1995

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968

Shares the comingofage + escape thread

69% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Full cicada moon

Marilyn Hilton · 2015

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie · 2007

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

The Giver

Lois Lowry · 1993

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Invitation to the game

Monica Hughes · 1990

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

That was then, this is now

S. E. Hinton · 1971

Shares the escape + comingofage thread

69% genome match