Books like The Code of the Woosters
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse reads as farce, dry wit. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Right Ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse · 1934
Shares the comic + heist thread
100% genome match
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse · 1963
Shares the comic + heist thread
100% genome match
The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh · 1948
Shares the comic + vornate thread
69% genome match
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980
Shares the comic + hopeful thread
69% genome match
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Shares the heist + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare · 1602
Shares the heist + vornate thread
69% genome match
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842
Shares the comic + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Princess Bride
William Goldman · 1973
Shares the heist + comic thread
69% genome match
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967
Shares the comic + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1890
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Hippopotamus, The
Stephen Fry · 1994
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst · 1988
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
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