Books like Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare reads as witty, playful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

William Shakespeare · 1734

Shares the romance + vornate thread

75% genome match

The Two Noble Kinsmen

John Fletcher · 1634

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Faust

Charles Gounod · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson · 1631

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1951

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe · 1818

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Xi xiang ji

Wang Shifu · 1603

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Richard Wagner · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson · 1989

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Comedias

Lope de Vega · 1604

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The lions of Al-Rassan

Guy Gavriel Kay · 1995

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match