Books like The Last House on Needless Street

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward reads as dark, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

In the Woods

Tana French · 2007

Shares the human + unreliable thread

83% genome match

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood · 1996

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

In the house in the dark of the woods

Laird Hunt · 2018

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · 2016

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

In the Night Room

Peter Straub · 2004

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo · 1955

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Dust of Wonderland

Lee Thomas · 2007

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 1898

Shares the unreliable + vhypno thread

69% genome match

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson · 1962

Shares the unreliable + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane · 2003

Shares the unreliable + human thread

83% genome match