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"Master Harold"-- and the boys by Athol Fugard reads as poignant, tense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The blood knot
Athol Fugard · 1963
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73% genome match
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton · 1967
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli · 2003
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
The red badge of courage, and other stories
Stephen Crane · 1957
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
Crumbs from the table of joy
Lynn Nottage · 1998
Shares the comingofage thread
69% genome match
Lot
Bryan Washington
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
Bertolt Brecht · 1954
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Getting out
Marsha Norman · 1979
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie · 2007
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck · 1961
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Sisters/Hermanas
Gary Paulsen · 1993
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Cay
Theodore Taylor · 1969
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
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