Books like Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare reads as emotional, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Romeo y Julieta (adaptation)

William Shakespeare · 1863

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

77% genome match

'Tis pity she's a whore

John Ford · 1915

Shares the vornate thread

72% genome match

El caballero de Olmedo

Lope de Vega · 1606

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

73% genome match

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1483

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

Pandosto

Robert Greene · 1588

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

71% genome match

The Ballad of Never After

Stephanie Garber · 2022

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

The infernal machine, and other plays

Jean Cocteau · 1963

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy · 1874

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

83% genome match

Plays

John Webster · 1830

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match