Books like I am the Cheese

I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier reads as unsettling, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · 2016

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Ice haven

Daniel Clowes · 2005

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Winter in the blood

James Welch · 1974

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

A lie of the mind

Sam Shepard · 1986

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Death in Her Hands

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2020

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

No man's land

Harold Pinter · 1975

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Lover's Dictionary

David Levithan · 2010

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

When the emperor was divine

Julie Otsuka · 2002

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart · 2014

Shares the unreliable + human thread

69% genome match

Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

D'entre les morts

Boileau-Narcejac · 1954

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

In the house in the dark of the woods

Laird Hunt · 2018

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match