Books like Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace reads as experimental, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

White Noise

Don DeLillo · 1985

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick · 1977

Shares the transgress + maximal thread

69% genome match

If on a winter's night a traveler

Italo Calvino · 1979

Shares the transgress + maximal thread

69% genome match

V.

Thomas Pynchon

Same literary feel

63% genome match

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 1991

Shares the transgress thread

69% genome match

Satin Island

Tom McCarthy

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

The Topeka School

Ben Lerner · 2019

Shares the maximal + transgress thread

69% genome match

Darkmans

Nicola Barker · 2007

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan · 2010

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match

A Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis

Same literary feel

58% genome match

Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk · 1999

Shares the transgress + maximal thread

69% genome match

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000

Shares the maximal thread

69% genome match