Books like Thân phận của tình yêu

Thân phận của tình yêu by Bảo Ninh reads as melancholic, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien · 1990

Shares the history + vhypno thread

83% genome match

Paco's Story

Larry Heinemann

Shares the history + vhypno thread

69% genome match

No man's land

Pete Ayrton · 2014

Shares the grief + history thread

69% genome match

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje · 1992

Shares the history + vhypno thread

76% genome match

Pale horse, pale rider

Katherine Anne Porter · 1939

Shares the grief + history thread

76% genome match

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels · 1996

Shares the history + vhypno thread

77% genome match

Chronicle in Stone

Ismail Kadare · 1973

Shares the history + vhypno thread

75% genome match

The Hunger Angel

Herta Müller · 2012

Shares the history + vhypno thread

74% genome match

Alcools

Guillaume Apollinaire · 1920

Shares the history + vhypno thread

74% genome match

Any human heart

William Boyd · 2002

Shares the grief + history thread

73% genome match

A Passage North

Anuk Arudpragasam · 2021

Shares the grief + history thread

72% genome match

Sophie's Choice

William Styron

Shares the grief + history thread

69% genome match