Books like The Best We Could Do

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui reads as emotional, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Waltz with Bashir

Ari Folman · 2008

Shares the human + unreliable thread

76% genome match

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

Shares the human + unreliable thread

83% genome match

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei · 2019

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Running in the Family

Michael Ondaatje

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Epileptic

David B.

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The bill from my father

Bernard Cooper · 2006

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Heavy

Kiese Laymon

Shares the human + unreliable thread

79% genome match

Muzej bezuvjetne predaje

Dubravka Ugrešić · 1997

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Istanbul

Orhan Pamuk · 2003

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

Shares the human + unreliable thread

77% genome match

Every good-bye ain't gone

Itabari Njeri · 1990

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match