Books like Il sistema periodico
Il sistema periodico by Primo Levi reads as reflective, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
weiter leben
Ruth Klüger · 1992
Shares the human + unreliable thread
70% genome match
La place
Annie Ernaux · 1983
Shares the human + unreliable thread
77% genome match
The way to rainy mountain
N. Scott Momaday · 1969
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
I am my own wife
Doug Wright · 2004
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei · 2019
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Girl, interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 1993
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Story of a Life
Aharon Appelfeld · 2004
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The bill from my father
Bernard Cooper · 2006
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Only Girl in the Car
Kathy Dobie · 2002
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Woman to woman
Marguerite Duras · 1987
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Récits d'Ellis Island
Georges Perec · 1980
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Swimming studies
Leanne Shapton · 2012
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
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