Books like The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Shares the collapse + ambition thread

69% genome match

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 1856

Shares the transgress + vornate thread

76% genome match

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust · 1913

Shares the transgress + collapse thread

83% genome match

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

83% genome match

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Shares the collapse + ambition thread

83% genome match

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser · 1900

Shares the transgress + ambition thread

83% genome match

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

70% genome match

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy · 1886

Shares the ambition thread

78% genome match

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

Shares the vornate thread

73% genome match