Books like Les Miserables

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

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Shares the power + escape thread

80% genome match

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens · 1838

Shares the justice + escape thread

69% genome match

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852

Shares the justice + vornate thread

69% genome match

Germinal

Émile Zola · 1885

Shares the power + escape thread

69% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the power + vornate thread

71% genome match

Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac · 1835

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

Shares the justice + escape thread

69% genome match

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1872

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal · 1902

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

Лев Толстой · 1882

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match