Books like Swimming in the Dark
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski reads as melancholic, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Nine-Chambered Heart
Janice Pariat · 2017
Shares the human + unreliable thread
71% genome match
The Details
Ia Genberg · 2022
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Autobiographie de ma mère
Jamaica Kincaid · 1996
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
A Sport and a Pastime
James Salter · 2002
Shares the human + unreliable thread
71% genome match
Mothers and Sons
Colm Toibin · 2007
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Body Artist
Don DeLillo
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Heartbreak Soup
Gilbert Hernandez · 1987
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
Hersenschimmen
J. Bernlef · 1984
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Lover's Dictionary
David Levithan · 2010
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes · 2011
Shares the quiet + human thread
69% genome match
Out of the Dark
Patrick Modiano · 1998
Shares the human + unreliable thread
69% genome match
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