Books like Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry reads as epic, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Comanche Moon

Larry McMurtry

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Monte Walsh

Jack Schaefer

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

News of the World

Paulette Jiles · 2016

Both explore the frontier

83% genome match

Sula

Toni Morrison · 1973

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout · 2008

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy · 1985

Both explore the frontier

83% genome match

Doc

Mary Doria Russell · 2011

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Same historical feel

56% genome match

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini · 2003

Shares the foundfamily thread

83% genome match

The Son

Philipp Meyer

Same historical feel

61% genome match

The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer · 2013

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match