Books like Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy reads as dark, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905
Shares the ambition thread
72% genome match
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser · 1900
Shares the ambition + escape thread
83% genome match
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy · 1886
Shares the ambition thread
83% genome match
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871
Shares the ambition thread
69% genome match
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2011
Shares the ambition + escape thread
69% genome match
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Shares the escape thread
78% genome match
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 1915
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
The Warden
Anthony Trollope · 1855
Shares the ambition thread
69% genome match
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac
Shares the ambition + escape thread
69% genome match
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell · 1855
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 1814
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
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