Books like Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville reads as epic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Herman Melville · 2020

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

81% genome match

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

70% genome match

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert · 1969

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Overstory

Richard Powers · 2018

Shares the maximal + wonder thread

83% genome match

North Woods

Daniel Mason · 2023

Shares the wonder + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 1990

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

69% genome match

Metamorphoses

Ovid · 1479

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Orlando

Virginia Woolf · 1928

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

69% genome match

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak · 1957

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell · 2004

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

William Shakespeare · 1730

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match