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Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez reads as gentle, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
A thousand mornings
Mary Oliver · 2012
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69% genome match
Libro de las preguntas
Pablo Neruda · 1974
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69% genome match
If Not, Winter
Sappho · 2002
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76% genome match
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 1890
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69% genome match
The Ink Dark Moon
Ono No Komachi · 1988
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75% genome match
Butterfly Valley
Inger Christensen · 1991
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73% genome match
Palm-of-the-hand stories
川端康成 · 1988
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71% genome match
The Shell Collector
Anthony Doerr · 2001
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69% genome match
Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen · 2006
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69% genome match
Gitanjali (song offerings)
Rabindranath Tagore · 1910
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69% genome match
Sent i November
Tove Jansson · 1970
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69% genome match
Collected poems, prose & plays
Robert Frost · 1995
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69% genome match
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