Books like Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo reads as bleak, harrowing. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Men in War

Andreas Latzko · 1918

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Hello and goodbye

Athol Fugard · 1966

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

No man's land

Pete Ayrton · 2014

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

Home

Marilynne Robinson · 2024

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

Three soldiers

John Dos Passos · 1921

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Monsters of men

Patrick Ness · 2010

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

Under the skin

Michel Faber · 2000

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

War by Candlelight

Daniel Alarcón · 2005

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

Mothers and Sons

Colm Toibin · 2007

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

Adulthood Rites

Octavia E. Butler · 1988

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

R.U.R. and The insect play

Karel Čapek · 1920

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match