Books like The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros reads as lyrical, intimate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
72% genome match
The View from Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg · 2010
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
71% genome match
The List of Things That Will Not Change
Rebecca Stead · 2020
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
World's Fair
E. L. Doctorow · 1985
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Princess Academy
Shannon Hale · 2005
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
Dominicana
Angie Cruz · 2020
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
69% genome match
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
73% genome match
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · 1953
Shares the escape + vhypno thread
69% genome match
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968
Shares the comingofage + escape thread
69% genome match
An Island Like You
Judith Ortiz Cofer · 1995
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
70% genome match
It's Like This, Cat
Emily Cheney Neville · 1992
Shares the escape + comingofage thread
71% genome match
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