Books like Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald reads as melancholic, immersive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

83% genome match

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh · 1945

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes · 1936

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Justine

Lawrence Durrell · 1957

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Death in Venice and other stories

Thomas Mann · 1983

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Feux

Marguerite Yourcenar · 1973

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Shares the quiet thread

69% genome match

Livro do Desassossego

Fernando Pessoa · 1982

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match