Books like The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides reads as melancholic, lyrical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Body Artist
Don DeLillo
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
75% genome match
A Sport and a Pastime
James Salter · 2002
Shares the unreliable + quiet thread
82% genome match
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · 2000
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
69% genome match
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Shares the grief + vhypno thread
83% genome match
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
79% genome match
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
78% genome match
Catherine House
Elisabeth Thomas · 2020
Shares the unreliable + academia thread
69% genome match
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
69% genome match
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart · 2014
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
69% genome match
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe · 1845
Shares the unreliable + grief thread
72% genome match
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa · 1994
Shares the grief + quiet thread
69% genome match
Out of the Dark
Patrick Modiano · 1998
Shares the unreliable + academia thread
76% genome match
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