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Books like The city and the pillar

The city and the pillar by Gore Vidal reads as melancholic, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Other Persuasion cover
The Other Persuasion
Seymour Kleinberg · 1977
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69% genome match
Home cover
Home
Toni Morrison · 2012
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69% genome match
Swimming in the Dark cover
Swimming in the Dark
Tomasz Jedrowski · 2020
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69% genome match
Cleanness cover
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell · 2020
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69% genome match
A single man cover
A single man
Christopher Isherwood · 1964
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69% genome match
Dream Boy cover
Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley · 1995
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69% genome match
Walk the blue fields cover
Walk the blue fields
Claire Keegan · 2007
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69% genome match
Too Much Happiness cover
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro · 2009
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69% genome match
Peanuts Treasury cover
Peanuts Treasury
Charles M. Schulz · 1968
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69% genome match
The Way I Used To Be cover
The Way I Used To Be
Amber Smith · 2016
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69% genome match
Speak cover
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999
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69% genome match
Réquiem por un campesino español cover
Réquiem por un campesino español
Ramón J. Sender · 1960
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69% genome match

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