Books like The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford reads as melancholic, ironic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Beast in the Jungle
Henry James · 1915
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69% genome match
Soldiers' Pay
William Faulkner · 2013
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69% genome match
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust · 1913
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69% genome match
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1945
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83% genome match
Death in Venice and other stories
Thomas Mann · 1983
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69% genome match
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1934
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69% genome match
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905
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69% genome match
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis · 1900
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69% genome match
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001
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69% genome match
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
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69% genome match
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856
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69% genome match
Princesse de Clèves
Madame de La Fayette · 1678
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
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