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Midnight cowboy ; a novel by James Leo Herlihy reads as bleak, gritty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski · 1982
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69% genome match
Junky
William S. Burroughs · 1953
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69% genome match
The Republic of East LA
Luis J. Rodriguez · 2002
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69% genome match
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton · 1967
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69% genome match
The bean eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks · 1960
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69% genome match
Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row
John Steinbeck · 1947
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69% genome match
Sarah
JT LeRoy · 2000
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69% genome match
La Virgen de los Sicarios / Our Lady of the Assassins
Fernando Vallejo · 1994
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69% genome match
Karoo moose
Lara Foot Newton · 2009
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69% genome match
Getting out
Marsha Norman · 1979
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69% genome match
Beneath the skin
John Rechy · 2004
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69% genome match
Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell · 2006
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71% genome match
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