Books like The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz reads as earnest, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Evelina
Fanny Burney · 1778
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles · 2021
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · 2007
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 1943
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
83% genome match
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2019
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
Shares the comingofage + vornate thread
69% genome match
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith · 1948
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968
Shares the comingofage + escape thread
69% genome match
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