Books like The village by the sea
The village by the sea by Anita Desai reads as melancholic, reflective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry · 1995
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
My father, Sun-Sun Johnson
C. Everard Palmer · 1974
Shares the escape thread
74% genome match
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan · 2000
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Drôle de garçon
Shyam Selvadurai · 1994
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Sounder
William Howard Armstrong · 1971
Shares the escape thread
70% genome match
Moscardino
Enrico Pea · 1922
Shares the escape thread
75% genome match
Nectar in a sieve
Kamala Markandaya · 1954
Shares the escape thread
83% genome match
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 1938
Shares the escape thread
83% genome match
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse · 1997
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
One of Ours
Willa Cather · 2022
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
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