Books like Salomé

Salomé by Oscar Wilde reads as dramatic, sensual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Don Juan Tenorio

José Zorrilla · 1892

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

New Tales of the Vampires

Anne Rice · 2003

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Salome

Richard Strauss · 1905

Shares the ambition + vornate thread

86% genome match

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1779

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Macbeth, Cloth, It

Giuseppe Verdi · 1847

Shares the ambition + vornate thread

69% genome match

Red as blood, or, Tales From the Sisters Grimmer

Tanith Lee · 1983

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The last tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1941

Shares the ambition + romance thread

69% genome match

The lady of the lake

Sir Walter Scott · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe · 1818

Shares the ambition + vornate thread

69% genome match

The bloody chamber and other stories

Angela Carter · 1979

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Lalla Rookh

Thomas Moore · 1800

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Shares the romance + vornate thread

69% genome match