Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde reads as dark, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster · 1640
Shares the power + vornate thread
69% genome match
Lectures on architecture and painting
John Ruskin · 1845
Shares the wonder + vornate thread
69% genome match
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · 1912
Shares the wonder + lyrical thread
69% genome match
Red as blood, or, Tales From the Sisters Grimmer
Tanith Lee · 1983
Shares the lyrical + vornate thread
69% genome match
Marius the Epicurean
Walter Pater · 1885
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 1021
Shares the wonder + lyrical thread
69% genome match
Rime
Francesco Petrarca · 1475
Shares the wonder + lyrical thread
69% genome match
The Complete Poems of John Keats
John Keats · 1994
Shares the wonder + lyrical thread
69% genome match
The Penguin book of Romantic poetry
Jonathan Wordsworth · 2005
Shares the wonder + lyrical thread
69% genome match
Bunny
Mona Awad · 2019
Shares the wonder + vornate thread
69% genome match
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore · 1989
Shares the power + vornate thread
69% genome match
Flora's feast
Walter Crane · 1889
Shares the wonder + lyrical thread
69% genome match
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