Books like Solito

Solito by Javier Zamora reads as poignant, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The distance between us

Reyna Grande · 2013

Shares the escape thread

83% genome match

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women

Wayétu Moore · 2020

Shares the escape thread

88% genome match

Every good-bye ain't gone

Itabari Njeri · 1990

Shares the escape thread

72% genome match

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford · 2021

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Boy with Two Hearts

Hamed Amiri · 2020

Shares the escape thread

86% genome match

A boy's own story

Edmund White · 1982

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Survival Math

Mitchell Jackson · 2019

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Breasts and Eggs

川上未映子 · 2020

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri · 2020

Both explore immigration & childhood

80% genome match

Hunger of memory

Richard Rodriguez · 1982

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

When I was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago · 1993

Shares the escape thread

75% genome match

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

T. Kira Madden · 2019

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match