Books like Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck reads as melancholic, immersive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki · 1914

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

69% genome match

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout · 2008

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

69% genome match

Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row

John Steinbeck · 1947

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Shares the quiet + vspare thread

69% genome match

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

Ivan Doig

Shares the foundfamily + quiet thread

69% genome match

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson · 1919

Shares the outsider + quiet thread

69% genome match

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck · 2027

Shares the quiet thread

69% genome match

Novels (The Call of the Wild / White Fang)

Jack London · 1962

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman · 2017

Shares the outsider + foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Det osynliga barnet och andra berättelser

Tove Jansson · 1963

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley · 2018

Shares the outsider + foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

Shares the quiet + outsider thread

69% genome match