Books like The fifth child
The fifth child by Doris Lessing reads as bleak, unsettling. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Baby Teeth
Zoje Stage · 2018
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69% genome match
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Roald Dahl · 1983
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69% genome match
Pájaros en la boca
Samanta Schweblin · 2008
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69% genome match
The Bad Seed
William March · 1954
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69% genome match
Dark Matter
Michelle Paver · 2010
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid · 2016
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The Cormorant
Stephen Gregory · 1986
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69% genome match
Lies of Silence
Brian Moore · 1990
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69% genome match
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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69% genome match
The houseguest and other stories
Amparo Dávila · 2018
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69% genome match
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Laird Koenig · 1973
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69% genome match
Sabrina
Nick Drnaso · 2018
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69% genome match
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