Books like Les confessions

Les confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau reads as reflective, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 1854

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69% genome match

Aus meinem Leben

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800

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Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955

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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800

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De Profundis and Other Writings

Oscar Wilde · 1973

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Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at Norwich, A.D. 1373

Julian of Norwich · 1901

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De vita solitaria

Francesco Petrarca · 1879

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Über die Einsamkeit

Johann Georg Zimmermann · 1791

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Essays

Francis Bacon · 1618

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Confessions

Augustine of Hippo · 1482

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Kærlighedens gerninger

Søren Kierkegaard · 1946

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The rambler

Samuel Johnson · 1750

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69% genome match