Books like If You Come Softly

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson reads as poignant, tender. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Very Large Expanse of Sea

Tahereh Mafi · 2018

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff · 2004

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

71% genome match

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid · 1983

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

Your Eyes in Stars

M. E. Kerr · 2006

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

72% genome match

After Tupac and D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson · 2008

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

We are okay

Nina LaCour · 2017

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki · 2014

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Benjamin Alire Saenz · 2012

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

How to breathe underwater

Julie Orringer · 2003

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

I Hear the SunSpot

Yuki Fumino · 2014

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

Lucas

Kevin Brooks · 2003

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match