Books like The Way We Live Now
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope reads as witty, immersive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848
Shares the collapse + comic thread
83% genome match
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope · 1857
Shares the collapse + comic thread
83% genome match
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens · 1839
Shares the collapse + vornate thread
83% genome match
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 1905
Shares the collapse + vornate thread
74% genome match
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862
Shares the power + vornate thread
69% genome match
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871
Shares the collapse + vornate thread
69% genome match
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1877
Shares the collapse + vornate thread
72% genome match
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth · 1993
Shares the power + vornate thread
69% genome match
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400
Shares the collapse + comic thread
71% genome match
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881
Shares the collapse + vornate thread
69% genome match
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842
Shares the comic + vornate thread
83% genome match
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
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