Books like Sounder

Sounder by William Howard Armstrong reads as emotional, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

All the days past, all the days to come

Mildred D. Taylor · 2020

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse · 1997

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis · 2000

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

My Brother Sam Is Dead

James Lincoln Collier · 1974

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

That was then, this is now

S. E. Hinton · 1971

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Under the feet of Jesus

Helena María Viramontes · 1995

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Journey to Jo'burg

Beverley Naidoo · 1985

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis · 2001

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout · 2016

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Lot

Bryan Washington

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Addy's Surprise

Connie Rose Porter · 1993

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Make Lemonade

Virginia Euwer Wolff · 1993

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match