Books like Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban reads as experimental, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick · 1977
Shares the maximal + vvoice thread
69% genome match
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1930
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69% genome match
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor · 1952
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69% genome match
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk · 1996
Shares the maximal + vvoice thread
69% genome match
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
Shares the collapse + maximal thread
69% genome match
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
Shares the maximal + collapse thread
69% genome match
The Terror
Dan Simmons · 2007
Shares the collapse + vhypno thread
69% genome match
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
Shares the collapse + vvoice thread
69% genome match
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
Shares the maximal + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
Shares the collapse + vhypno thread
69% genome match
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