Books like So far from the bamboo grove

So far from the bamboo grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins reads as harrowing, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung · 2000

Shares the escape + history thread

82% genome match

The Journey Back

Johanna Reiss · 1976

Shares the escape + history thread

85% genome match

I Have Lived a Thousand Years

Livia Bitton-Jackson · 1997

Shares the escape + history thread

73% genome match

Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank / Excerpts from Anne Frank)

Frances Goodrich · 1989

Shares the escape + history thread

72% genome match

Eva's story

Eva Schloss · 1988

Shares the escape + history thread

75% genome match

Bag of Marbles

Joseph Joffo · 1975

Shares the escape + history thread

78% genome match

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom · 1971

Shares the history thread

76% genome match

The Endless Steppe

Esther Rudomin Hautzig · 1968

Shares the escape + history thread

79% genome match

Barefoot Gen Vol. 4, Barefoot Gen Vol. 5 (Splitting Works needed)

中沢 啓治 · 1978

Shares the escape + history thread

78% genome match

Fax from Sarajevo

Joe Kubert · 1996

Shares the escape + history thread

78% genome match

Winter in the morning

Janina Bauman · 1986

Shares the history thread

75% genome match

Hiroshima diary

Michihiko Hachiya · 1955

Shares the history thread

73% genome match