Books like I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb reads as poignant, intense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The real story
Stephen R. Donaldson · 1991
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A Question of Power
Bessie Head · 1972
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Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath · 1963
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The Punch
Noah Hawley · 2008
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Fall On Your Knees:A Novel
Ann-Marie MacDonald · 1996
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Cereus blooms at night
Shani Mootoo · 1996
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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
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No confession, no mass
Jennifer Perrine · 2015
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Life studies
Robert Lowell · 1959
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MPD-Psycho
Eiji Ōtsuka · 2007
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Rio Lento
Nicola Griffith · 1995
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The Human Stain
Philip Roth · 1999
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
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