Books like The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy reads as immersive, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1891

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

83% genome match

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 1860

Shares the vornate thread

83% genome match

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

70% genome match

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 1905

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese · 2023

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69% genome match

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

William Shakespeare · 1730

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

76% genome match

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh

Лев Толстой · 1882

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The old wives' tale

Arnold Bennett · 1900

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth · 1993

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

72% genome match