Books like M. Butterfly
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang reads as tragic, ironic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare · 1631
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Cereus blooms at night
Shani Mootoo · 1996
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters · 2002
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale · 2007
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Untold Decades
Robert Patrick · 1988
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare · 2014
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Philadelphia, here I come!
Brian Friel · 1965
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · 1966
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi · 2020
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
Traversée de la mangrove
Maryse Condé · 1989
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
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