Books like Our Wives Under the Sea
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield reads as melancholic, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood · 1996
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Witch Elm
Tana French · 2018
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Shares the human + unreliable thread
78% genome match
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward · 2021
Shares the unreliable + human thread
69% genome match
The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong · 2025
Shares the human + unreliable thread
73% genome match
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe · 1845
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
71% genome match
The Body Artist
Don DeLillo
Shares the human + unreliable thread
72% genome match
In the Night Room
Peter Straub · 2004
Shares the human + unreliable thread
74% genome match
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris
Shares the human + unreliable thread
73% genome match
The Bass Rock
Evie Wyld · 2020
Shares the human + unreliable thread
72% genome match
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
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
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