Books like Station Eleven

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel reads as melancholic, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Fiskadoro

Denis Johnson · 1985

Shares the human + collapse thread

86% genome match

The book of M

Peng Shepherd · 2018

Shares the human + collapse thread

81% genome match

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Shares the collapse + vspare thread

77% genome match

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel · 2022

Shares the collapse + vspare thread

83% genome match

Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes

Jacqueline Harpman · 1995

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

Devastation Road

Jason Hewitt · 2016

Shares the human + vspare thread

71% genome match

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm · 1976

Shares the human + collapse thread

69% genome match

The End We Start From

Megan Hunter · 2017

Shares the collapse + vspare thread

69% genome match

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Shares the collapse + hopeful thread

69% genome match

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Shares the human + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Dog Stars

Peter Heller

Shares the vspare thread

78% genome match

Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse

John Joseph Adams · 2008

Shares the collapse + vspare thread

69% genome match