Books like Sappho

Sappho by Sappho reads as passionate, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

If Not, Winter

Sappho · 2002

Shares the quiet + wonder thread

96% genome match

The Ink Dark Moon

Ono No Komachi · 1988

Shares the wonder + lovetime thread

90% genome match

Winter of Summers

Michael Faudet · 2018

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

75% genome match

Poems and Fragments

Sappho · 1915

Shares the wonder + lovetime thread

90% genome match

Cien sonetos de amor

Pablo Neruda · 1960

Shares the wonder + lovetime thread

79% genome match

The Nine-Chambered Heart

Janice Pariat · 2017

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

70% genome match

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson · 1890

Shares the quiet + wonder thread

69% genome match

I Wrote This For You and Only You

pleasefindthis · 2015

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

73% genome match

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter · 2002

Shares the quiet + romance thread

72% genome match

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata · 1948

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

74% genome match

The collected poems of Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale · 1937

Shares the wonder + romance thread

71% genome match

A thousand mornings

Mary Oliver · 2012

Shares the wonder + vspare thread

69% genome match