Books like The Centaur
The Centaur by John Updike reads as lyrical, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916
Shares the comingofage + escape thread
72% genome match
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
Shares the quiet thread
81% genome match
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 1915
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shares the escape + quiet thread
69% genome match
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968
Shares the comingofage + quiet thread
69% genome match
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb · 1995
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes · 1936
Shares the quiet thread
69% genome match
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
Dominicana
Angie Cruz · 2020
Shares the escape + quiet thread
69% genome match
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Shares the quiet thread
69% genome match
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · 1953
Shares the escape thread
79% genome match
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
Shares the quiet + escape thread
69% genome match
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