Books like Severance

Severance by Ling Ma reads as dark, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Shares the collapse + comic thread

69% genome match

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope · 1857

Shares the collapse + comic thread

69% genome match

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726

Shares the collapse + comic thread

69% genome match

The School for Good Mothers

Jessamine Chan · 2022

Shares the collapse thread

69% genome match

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · 1963

Shares the collapse + comic thread

83% genome match

The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett · 1983

Shares the collapse + comic thread

69% genome match

Leave the World Behind

Rumaan Alam · 2020

Shares the collapse thread

69% genome match

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood · 2019

Shares the collapse thread

69% genome match

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis · 2012

Shares the comic thread

69% genome match

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel · 2022

Shares the collapse thread

83% genome match

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 2020

Shares the collapse + comic thread

69% genome match

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes · 1966

Same sci-fi feel

57% genome match