Books like Śmierć Miasta

Śmierć Miasta by Władysław Szpilman reads as harrowing, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Livia Bitton-Jackson · 1997

Shares the history thread

83% genome match

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom · 1971

Shares the history thread

78% genome match

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung · 2000

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78% genome match

Anne Frank

Mirjam Pressler · 2000

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79% genome match

Nadzieja umiera ostatnia

Halina Birenbaum · 1971

Shares the history thread

83% genome match

A lucky child

Thomas Buergenthal · 2009

Shares the history thread

81% genome match

So far from the bamboo grove

Yoko Kawashima Watkins · 1986

Shares the history thread

78% genome match

The children of Willesden Lane

Mona Golabek · 2002

Shares the history thread

80% genome match

Eva's story

Eva Schloss · 1988

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80% genome match

When Time Stopped

Ariana Neumann · 2020

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79% genome match

Hiroshima diary

Michihiko Hachiya · 1955

Shares the history thread

78% genome match

Zlatin dnevnik

Zlata Filipović · 1993

Shares the history thread

74% genome match