Books like Mysterious skin
Mysterious skin by Scott Heim reads as disturbing, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Amrita
吉本 ばなな · 1994
Shares the human + unreliable thread
70% genome match
Three tall women
Edward Albee · 1995
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West · 1918
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
In the house in the dark of the woods
Laird Hunt · 2018
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
What I Was
Meg Rosoff · 2007
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Winter in the blood
James Welch · 1974
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2014
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Home
Marilynne Robinson · 2024
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
De aanslag
Harry Mulisch · 1982
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Fiskadoro
Denis Johnson · 1985
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro · 2009
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Autobiographie de ma mère
Jamaica Kincaid · 1996
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
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