Books like Open Water

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson reads as intimate, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson · 1994

Shares the quiet + justice thread

71% genome match

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

Shares the quiet + justice thread

70% genome match

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Call Me by Your Name

Andre Aciman · 2007

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

83% genome match

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami · 1987

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab · 2020

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

69% genome match

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter · 2002

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

73% genome match

Citizen

Claudia Rankine · 2014

Shares the justice + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Blood and Gold

Anne Rice

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Museum of Innocence

Orhan Pamuk · 2011

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

73% genome match

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2011

Shares the quiet + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng · 2014

Shares the quiet + justice thread

69% genome match