Books like Passing

Passing by Nella Larsen reads as melancholic, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Quicksand ; and, Passing

Nella Larsen · 1986

Shares the vspare thread

76% genome match

The house behind the cedars

Charles Waddell Chesnutt · 1900

Shares the vspare thread

75% genome match

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

Same classic feel

83% genome match

La casa de Bernarda Alba

Federico García Lorca · 1991

Shares the vspare thread

70% genome match

The Garden Party and other stories

Katherine Mansfield · 1922

Shares the vspare thread

70% genome match

The Awakening

Kate Chopin · 1899

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy · 1992

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Cane

Jean Toomer · 1923

Same literary feel

51% genome match

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse · 1922

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

The pisces

Melissa Broder · 2018

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

The setting sun

太宰 治 · 1956

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

If You Come Softly

Jacqueline Woodson · 1998

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match