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How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow reads as raw, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow · 2000
Shares the vspare thread
83% genome match
Burned
Ellen Hopkins · 2006
Shares the vspare thread
76% genome match
The Rules of Survival
Nancy Werlin · 2006
Shares the escape + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Laurie Halse Anderson · 2014
Shares the vspare thread
81% genome match
The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis · 2000
Shares the escape + vspare thread
75% genome match
Stop Pretending
Sonya Sones · 1999
Shares the vspare thread
76% genome match
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse · 1997
Shares the escape + vspare thread
73% genome match
Rebound
Kwame Alexander · 2018
Shares the escape + vspare thread
74% genome match
Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons · 1987
Shares the escape + vspare thread
75% genome match
The Wanderer
Sharon Creech · 2000
Shares the escape + vspare thread
76% genome match
The war that Saved my Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2015
Shares the escape + vspare thread
71% genome match
The night diary
Veera Hiranandani · 2018
Shares the escape + vspare thread
71% genome match
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