Books like The City We Became
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin reads as immersive, epic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs · 2011
Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread
69% genome match
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman · 1996
Shares the vvoice thread
69% genome match
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling · 1894
Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread
69% genome match
Zoo City
Lauren Beukes · 2010
Shares the vvoice thread
69% genome match
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang · 2006
Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread
69% genome match
NW
Zadie Smith · 2012
Shares the comingofage + foundfamily thread
69% genome match
Wonder
R.J. Palacio · 2012
Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread
69% genome match
In Other Lands
Sarah Rees Brennan · 2017
Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread
69% genome match
The story of Tracy Beaker
Jacqueline Wilson · 1991
Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread
69% genome match
New Kid
Jerry Craft · 2019
Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread
69% genome match
Good Omens
Terry Pratchett · 1990
Shares the foundfamily + vvoice thread
69% genome match
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow · 2019
Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread
69% genome match
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