Books like Normal People
Normal People by Sally Rooney reads as melancholic, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney · 2017
Shares the quiet + escape thread
94% genome match
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shares the escape + quiet thread
77% genome match
Dear Life
Alice Munro
Shares the escape + quiet thread
70% genome match
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 1915
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout · 2016
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
Drown
Junot Díaz
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
77% genome match
A Separate Peace
John Knowles · 1959
Shares the comingofage + quiet thread
74% genome match
Lot
Bryan Washington
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
77% genome match
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
75% genome match
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 1993
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
Shares the escape + quiet thread
72% genome match
Lawn boy
Jonathan Evison · 2018
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
72% genome match
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