Books like Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore reads as romantic, adventurous. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

79% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Shares the romance + vornate thread

83% genome match

The lady of the lake

Sir Walter Scott · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

70% genome match

La comtesse de Salisbury

Alexandre Dumas · 1839

Shares the romance + vornate thread

73% genome match

The Scottish Chiefs

Jane Porter · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Crisis

Winston Churchill · 1901

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Windsor Castle, an historical romance

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Laird's luck

Arthur Quiller-Couch · 1901

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Swordspoint

Ellen Kushner · 1986

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell · 1936

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona

Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1895

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Kingdom of Dreams

Judith McNaught

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match