Books like Ice

Ice by Anna Kavan reads as surreal, bleak. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Concrete island

J. G. Ballard · 1974

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Pig Tales

Marie Darrieussecq · 1997

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Cities of the Red Night

William S. Burroughs · 1981

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

A Hora da Estrela

Clarice Lispector · 1977

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Háború és háború

Krasznahorkai, László. · 1999

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

1Q84

Haruki Murakami · 2009

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Now Wait for Last Year

Philip K. Dick · 1966

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

砂の女

Abe Kōbō · 1962

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Blindness

Jose Saramago · 1995

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Beyond Apollo

Barry N. Malzberg · 1972

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke · 1930

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match