Books like Middlesex
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides reads as epic, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000
Shares the unreliable + comingofage thread
77% genome match
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 2003
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz · 2007
Shares the unreliable + comingofage thread
77% genome match
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles · 2021
Shares the comingofage + vornate thread
69% genome match
The People of Paper
Salvador Plascencia · 2005
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
71% genome match
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine · 2019
Shares the unreliable + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Delhi
Khushwant Singh · 1983
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García · 1992
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving · 1981
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz · 2015
Shares the comingofage + vornate thread
69% genome match
Travesuras de la niña mala
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2006
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Evelina
Fanny Burney · 1778
Shares the comingofage + vornate thread
69% genome match
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