Books like If on a winter's night a traveler

If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino reads as experimental, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges · 1944

Shares the maximal thread

71% genome match

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace · 1996

Shares the transgress + maximal thread

69% genome match

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov · 1955

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

Rayuela

Julio Cortázar · 1963

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles · 1969

Shares the maximal thread

83% genome match

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino · 1972

Shares the maximal thread

83% genome match

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Same literary feel

60% genome match

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick · 1977

Shares the transgress + maximal thread

69% genome match

White Noise

Don DeLillo · 1985

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match