Books like The setting sun
The setting sun by 太宰 治 reads as melancholic, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Crackling Mountain and other stories
太宰 治 · 1989
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
El llano en llamas
Juan Rulfo · 1953
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1948
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Sur les Cimes du Desespoir
Emil Cioran · 1990
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver · 1981
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
Extension du domaine de la lutte
Michel Houellebecq · 1994
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
Short stories
Tadeusz Borowski · 1959
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
En attendant Godot
Samuel Beckett · 1952
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
Kokoro
Natsume Soseki · 1914
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
Anʾya kōro. English
Shiga, Naoya · 1976
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship
Charles Bukowski · 1998
Shares the bleak + vspare thread
69% genome match
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