Books like Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy reads as melancholic, immersive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 1860

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

77% genome match

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy · 1878

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

84% genome match

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

70% genome match

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

83% genome match

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852

Shares the justice + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck · 1939

Shares the quiet + justice thread

83% genome match

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 1856

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

70% genome match

L'homme qui rit

Victor Hugo · 1800

Shares the quiet + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese · 2023

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1985

Shares the lovetime + quiet thread

69% genome match