Books like The crossing
The crossing by Cormac McCarthy reads as bleak, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Alabama moon
Watt Key · 2006
Shares the quest + vspare thread
69% genome match
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 1971
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
The reapers are the angels
Alden Bell · 2010
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley · 1995
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
I hate to see that evening sun go down
William Gay · 2002
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Paris Trout
Pete Dexter · 1988
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Train dreams
Denis Johnson · 2006
Shares the quest + vspare thread
69% genome match
Light in August
William Faulkner · 1932
Both explore fate
50% genome match
Trash
Dorothy Allison · 1988
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Dragon country
Tennessee Williams · 1970
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell · 1932
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
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