Books like The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles reads as immersive, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 1944
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69% genome match
Rayuela
Julio Cortázar · 1963
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69% genome match
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
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69% genome match
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 1997
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69% genome match
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy · 1878
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69% genome match
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot · 1860
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69% genome match
Trust
Hernan Diaz · 2022
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69% genome match
Possession
A.S. Byatt · 1990
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69% genome match
Hong lou meng
Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900
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69% genome match
The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass · 1959
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69% genome match
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
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69% genome match
The Magus
John Fowles · 1965
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83% genome match
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