Books like Parzival

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach reads as epic, moralistic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1975

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Le Morte d'Arthur

Thomas Malory · 1557

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69% genome match

Arthurian romances

Chrétien de Troyes · 1913

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69% genome match

Roman de la Rose

Guillaume de Lorris · 1493

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69% genome match

Tristan und Isolde

Gottfried von Strassburg · 1823

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69% genome match

The Mabinogion

Jeffrey Gantz · 1976

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69% genome match

Xi you ji

Wu Cheng'en · 1900

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71% genome match

Ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale

D. O. Fagunwa · 1968

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71% genome match

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott · 1819

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69% genome match

Lilith

George MacDonald · 1895

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69% genome match

The story of King Arthur and his knights

Howard Pyle · 1903

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69% genome match

The Well at the World's End

William Morris · 1892

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69% genome match