Books like Lolly Willowes

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner reads as whimsical, subversive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The hearing trumpet

Leonora Carrington · 1976

Both explore rebellion

68% genome match

A haunted house

Virginia Woolf · 1944

Same literary feel

51% genome match

The Awakening

Kate Chopin · 1899

Both explore freedom

59% genome match

Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson · 1989

Both explore freedom

62% genome match

A Room with a View

E.M. Forster · 1908

Same classic feel

57% genome match

All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville-West · 1931

Both explore freedom & societal expectations

59% genome match

The dyke and the dybbuk

Ellen Galford · 1993

Same fantasy feel

60% genome match

The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic)

Jeffrey Eugenides · 1993

Same literary feel

56% genome match

Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1951

Same classic feel

56% genome match

Slewfoot

Brom · 2021

Both explore witchcraft

56% genome match

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence · 1900

Both explore nature

54% genome match

There but for the

Ali Smith · 2011

Same literary feel

56% genome match