Books like Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro reads as melancholic, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005

Shares the human + quiet thread

83% genome match

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid · 2017

Shares the quiet + vspare thread

71% genome match

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel · 2022

Shares the quiet + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Body Artist

Don DeLillo

Shares the human + quiet thread

69% genome match

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter · 2002

Shares the human + quiet thread

69% genome match

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969

Shares the quiet + human thread

83% genome match

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata · 1948

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

69% genome match

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 2003

Shares the human + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki · 1914

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

69% genome match

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson · 2004

Shares the quiet + human thread

69% genome match

Foe

Iain Reid · 2018

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Electric State

Simon Stålenhag · 2018

Shares the human + vspare thread

72% genome match