Books like The Scarlet Plague

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London reads as bleak, cautionary. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Sky So Heavy

Claire Zorn · 2013

Both explore survival & post-apocalyptic

69% genome match

Метро 2033

Дмитрий Глуховский · 2007

Both explore post-apocalyptic & survival

63% genome match

One second after

William R. Forstchen · 2009

Both explore survival & societal collapse

63% genome match

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912

Both explore survival

61% genome match

When the Tripods Came (The Tripods #0.5)

Sam Youd · 1988

Both explore survival

65% genome match

The war in the air

H. G. Wells · 1908

Both explore societal collapse

67% genome match

When Worlds Collide

Philip Wylie · 1932

Both explore survival & societal collapse

64% genome match

The Feet Say Run

Dan Blum · 2016

Both explore post-apocalyptic & survival

67% genome match

The day of wrath

Louis Tracy · 1916

Both explore survival & societal collapse

66% genome match

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900

Both explore survival

58% genome match

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 1952

Same classic feel

57% genome match

Válka s mloky

Karel Čapek · 1936

Both explore human nature

60% genome match