Books like Silas Marner

Silas Marner by George Eliot reads as warm, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction

Sarah Orne Jewett · 1996

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

74% genome match

Monte Walsh

Jack Schaefer

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

80% genome match

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman · 2017

Shares the outsider + foundfamily thread

69% genome match

A List of Cages

Robin Roe

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

75% genome match

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck · 1945

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

72% genome match

Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers · 2018

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

69% genome match

It's Like This, Cat

Emily Cheney Neville · 1992

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

70% genome match

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

Love, Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 2007

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

The Mothers

Brit Bennett · 2016

Shares the foundfamily + hopeful thread

69% genome match

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout · 2008

Shares the outsider + foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Plainsong

Kent Haruf · 1999

Shares the hopeful + foundfamily thread

69% genome match