Books like The gutter in the sky
The gutter in the sky by Jean Genet reads as provocative, poetic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Hogg
Samuel R. Delany · 1994
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
The lime twig
John Hawkes · 1961
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Querelle de Brest
Jean Genet · 1953
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Cities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs · 1981
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Rime
Francesco Petrarca · 1475
Shares the lyrical + vornate thread
69% genome match
Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare · 1593
Shares the lyrical + vornate thread
69% genome match
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson · 1992
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
The Penguin book of Romantic poetry
Jonathan Wordsworth · 2005
Shares the lyrical + vornate thread
69% genome match
Rayuela
Julio Cortázar · 1963
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Lost Girls
Melinda Gebbie · 1995
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Red as blood, or, Tales From the Sisters Grimmer
Tanith Lee · 1983
Shares the lyrical + vornate thread
69% genome match
Masumiyet müzesi
Orhan Pamuk · 2008
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
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