Books like Howards End

Howards End by E.M. Forster reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck · 2027

Shares the escape thread

70% genome match

Hard Times

Charles Dickens · 1854

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton · 1911

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Dear Life

Alice Munro

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70% genome match

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

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69% genome match

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

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70% genome match

Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

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70% genome match

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser · 1900

Shares the escape thread

83% genome match

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1855

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen · 1814

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck · 1939

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match