Books like The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale by Arnold Bennett reads as realistic, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Adam Bede
George Eliot · 1859
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69% genome match
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
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69% genome match
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905
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69% genome match
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope · 1861
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69% genome match
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1877
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69% genome match
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth · 1993
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69% genome match
Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh
Лев Толстой · 1882
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69% genome match
The way of all flesh
Samuel Butler · 1900
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69% genome match
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856
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69% genome match
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
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69% genome match
Hong lou meng
Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900
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69% genome match
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881
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69% genome match
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