Books like Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare reads as witty, romantic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Novels (Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice)

Jane Austen · 1994

Shares the romance + vornate thread

74% genome match

Corinne

Germaine de Staël · 1786

Shares the romance + vornate thread

70% genome match

Senhora

José de Alencar · 1900

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Faro's Daughter

Georgette Heyer · 1941

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare · 1734

Shares the romance + vornate thread

78% genome match

Trilby

George du Maurier · 1894

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Beauty and the beast

Jean Cocteau · 1970

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Salomé

Oscar Wilde · 1893

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1775

Shares the vornate thread

74% genome match

Comedias

Lope de Vega · 1604

Shares the romance + vornate thread

74% genome match

Indian ink

Tom Stoppard · 1995

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Poems and ballads

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1866

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match