Books like Meghadūta

Meghadūta by Kālidāsa reads as melancholic, lyrical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Cien sonetos de amor

Pablo Neruda · 1960

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

79% genome match

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra · 1997

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Sonnets

William Shakespeare · 1609

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Heroides

Ovid · 1502

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

70% genome match

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1483

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

The last song of dusk

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi · 2004

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Apollonius Rhodius

Apollonius Rhodius · 1550

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1881

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Haft paykar

Niẓāmī Ganjavī · 1934

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

The Poems of Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell · 1857

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Il pastor fido

Battista Guarini · 1590

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match