Books like Les Amities Particulaires

Les Amities Particulaires by Roger Peyrefitte reads as melancholic, intense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Der Tod in Venedig

Thomas Mann · 1913

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Aminta, favola boschereccia

Torquato Tasso · 1590

Shares the romance + vornate thread

72% genome match

Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)

William Shakespeare · 1771

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Collected Stories

Tennessee Williams · 1985

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Phèdre

Jean Racine · 1677

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Habibi

Craig Thompson · 2011

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1779

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Salomé

Oscar Wilde · 1893

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Roman de la Rose

Guillaume de Lorris · 1493

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Justine

Lawrence Durrell · 1957

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Dark Flower

John Galsworthy · 1913

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match