Books like The People of Paper

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia reads as whimsical, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the human + unreliable thread

75% genome match

Travesuras de la niña mala

Mario Vargas Llosa · 2006

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie · 2003

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina García · 1992

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Radiance

Catherynne M. Valente · 2001

Shares the human + unreliable thread

74% genome match

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

Shares the human + unreliable thread

83% genome match

Obsceno pájaro de la noche

José Donoso · 1973

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo · 1955

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

The white hotel

D. M. Thomas · 1981

Shares the human + unreliable thread

69% genome match

Kara Kitap

Orhan Pamuk · 1990

Shares the human + unreliable thread

75% genome match

In The Forest Of Forgetting

Theodora Goss · 2006

Shares the human + unreliable thread

77% genome match

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami · 2002

Shares the unreliable + human thread

69% genome match