Books like Romance of the three kingdoms

Romance of the three kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong reads as epic, dramatic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Dune

Frank Herbert · 1965

Shares the power + maximal thread

69% genome match

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

Paradise Lost

John Milton · 1667

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Fable

William Faulkner · 1976

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

The songs of the kings

Barry Unsworth · 2002

Shares the power + maximal thread

70% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Agamemnon

Aischylos · 2022

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Metamorphoses

Ovid · 1479

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

Napoleon

Alexandre Dumas · 1831

Shares the power + vornate thread

69% genome match

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell · 2004

Shares the maximal + power thread

69% genome match

Ulysses

James Joyce · 1922

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match