Books like Les Misérables

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Shares the power + escape thread

83% genome match

Germinal

Émile Zola · 1885

Shares the power + escape thread

80% genome match

Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac · 1835

Shares the vornate thread

72% genome match

Works (Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)

Charles Dickens · 1868

Shares the escape + vornate thread

78% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1872

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 1856

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt · 2013

Shares the escape + vornate thread

69% genome match

Voskresenīe

Лев Толстой · 1899

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry · 1995

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham · 1915

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match