Books like Le Morte d'Arthur

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory reads as epic, tragic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Tristan und Isolde

Gottfried von Strassburg · 1823

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69% genome match

Parzival

Wolfram von Eschenbach · 1885

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69% genome match

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1975

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69% genome match

Roman de la Rose

Guillaume de Lorris · 1493

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69% genome match

The Well at the World's End

William Morris · 1892

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73% genome match

The worm Ouroboros

Eric Rücker Eddison · 1900

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72% genome match

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

William Shakespeare · 1730

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69% genome match

Arthurian romances

Chrétien de Troyes · 1913

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69% genome match

The Talisman

Sir Walter Scott · 1800

Shares the vornate thread

71% genome match

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Anonymous · 2001

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71% genome match

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1483

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69% genome match

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Marie Borroff · 1962

Shares the vornate thread

71% genome match