Books like The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler reads as bittersweet, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald · 1978
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69% genome match
Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout · 1998
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69% genome match
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro · 1971
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69% genome match
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood
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69% genome match
Trois chambres à Manhattan
Georges Simenon · 1946
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72% genome match
Sarah, plain and tall
Patricia MacLachlan · 1985
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69% genome match
Love letters
A. R. Gurney · 1989
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69% genome match
Pizza Girl
Jean Kyoung Frazier · 2020
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69% genome match
Shopgirl
Steve Martin · 2000
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69% genome match
La solitudine dei numeri primi
Paolo Giordano · 2008
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69% genome match
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver · 1981
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69% genome match
Benediction
Kent Haruf · 2013
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69% genome match
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