Books like The Notebook

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks reads as emotional, bittersweet. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

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Elizabeth Acevedo

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen · 2006

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Three Junes

Julia Glass

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Door

Margaret Atwood · 2007

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Too Much Happiness

Alice Munro · 2009

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Any human heart

William Boyd · 2002

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart · 2014

Shares the unreliable + human thread

69% genome match

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett · 2023

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Hersenschimmen

J. Bernlef · 1984

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Three tall women

Edward Albee · 1995

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

Fredrik Backman · 2018

Shares the human + grief thread

69% genome match