Books like The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne reads as dark, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Billy Budd / Red Badge of Courage / Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1969

Shares the vornate thread

80% genome match

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 1898

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy · 1985

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)

Edgar Allan Poe · 1990

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Ghost Story

Peter Straub · 1979

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

Sheridan Le Fanu · 1894

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust · 1913

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann · 1912

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Rime of the ancient mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1827

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Goblin market

Christina Georgina Rosetti · 1865

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match