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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton reads as contemplative, insightful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit · 2000
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69% genome match
The Second Common Reader
Virginia Woolf · 1925
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69% genome match
Conundrum
Jan Morris · 1974
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69% genome match
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe
Vita Sackville-West · 1984
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69% genome match
Essays in the art of writing
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1905
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69% genome match
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
Walter Pater · 1873
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75% genome match
Le temps, ce grand sculpteur
Marguerite Yourcenar · 1983
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69% genome match
Twilight in Italy
D. H. Lawrence · 1916
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69% genome match
Forewords and afterwords
W. H. Auden · 1973
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A backward glance
Edith Wharton · 1934
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69% genome match
Art Objects
Jeanette Winterson · 1995
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69% genome match
Forests
Robert Pogue Harrison · 1992
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69% genome match
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