Books like Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng reads as poignant, dystopian. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood · 2019

Both explore resistance

58% genome match

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005

Same sci-fi feel

51% genome match

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes · 1966

Both explore identity

62% genome match

The Word for World Is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin

Both explore resistance

64% genome match

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

Same literary feel

60% genome match

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel · 2022

Both explore art

57% genome match

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Same sci-fi feel

54% genome match

Native Speaker

Chang-rae Lee

Both explore identity

56% genome match

The Handmaid's Tale [Graphic Novel]

Renee Nault · 2019

Both explore resistance & identity

55% genome match

The book of M

Peng Shepherd · 2018

Both explore identity

58% genome match

So much life left over

Louis de Bernières · 2018

Same literary feel

60% genome match

Native Tongue

Suzette Haden Elgin · 1984

Both explore resistance

56% genome match