Books like The Soft Machine
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs reads as disturbing, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Cities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs · 1981
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
73% genome match
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Carlo Emilio Gadda · 1957
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Hazarski rečnik
Milorad Pavić · 1984
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot · 1922
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Bieguni
Olga Tokarczuk · 2007
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The stone gods
Jeanette Winterson · 2007
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Fragments d'un discours amoureux
Roland Barthes · 1977
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Alice in Sunderland
Bryan Talbot · 1998
Shares the vornate + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany · 1975
Shares the vornate thread
73% genome match
Lanark
Alasdair Gray · 1981
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
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