Books like The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers reads as epic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Shares the maximal + lovetime thread
83% genome match
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851
Shares the maximal + wonder thread
69% genome match
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
69% genome match
North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023
Shares the wonder + lovetime thread
69% genome match
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
69% genome match
Hyperion
Dan Simmons · 1989
Shares the maximal + lovetime thread
69% genome match
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 2022
Shares the lovetime thread
69% genome match
God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert · 1981
Shares the maximal + lovetime thread
69% genome match
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855
Shares the maximal + wonder thread
69% genome match
Little, Big
John Crowley · 1981
Shares the wonder + lovetime thread
69% genome match
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
69% genome match
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Shares the lovetime thread
69% genome match
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