Books like Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders reads as experimental, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005
Shares the grief + maximal thread
69% genome match
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
83% genome match
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk · 1996
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927
Shares the grief + maximal thread
69% genome match
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Grief is the thing with feathers
Max Porter · 2015
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
72% genome match
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
White Noise
Don DeLillo · 1985
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · 2000
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
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