Books like The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
82% genome match
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
76% genome match
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 1857
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
78% genome match
Adam Bede
George Eliot · 1859
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
73% genome match
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1877
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
83% genome match
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
73% genome match
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847
Shares the quiet thread
69% genome match
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
69% genome match
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham · 1915
Shares the quiet thread
69% genome match
Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë · 1847
Shares the quiet thread
69% genome match
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 1958
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880
Shares the quiet + vornate thread
69% genome match
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