Books like The Ivy Tree
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart reads as atmospheric, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The smile of the stranger
Joan Aiken · 1978
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
81% genome match
The Mystery of the Gulls
Phyllis A. Whitney · 1949
Shares the vornate thread
83% genome match
The dead secret
Wilkie Collins · 1857
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
79% genome match
Here I stay
Barbara Michaels · 1983
Shares the vornate thread
81% genome match
My Sweet Audrina
V.C. Andrews · 1982
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters · 2002
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
71% genome match
A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz · 2006
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
73% genome match
The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice · 1988
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Lady Audley's secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
April Genevieve Tucholke · 2001
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Behind a Mask, or, A Woman's Power
Louisa May Alcott · 1975
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell · 2017
Shares the unreliable + vornate thread
69% genome match
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