Books like Therese Raquin

Therese Raquin by Émile Zola reads as bleak, intense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Thérèse Raquin

Émile Zola

Both explore murder & obsession

66% genome match

Cousin Bette

Honoré de Balzac

Both explore obsession

63% genome match

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 1856

Both explore adultery

83% genome match

Dead Souls

Николай Васильевич Гоголь · 1942

Both explore social critique

55% genome match

Gospoda Golovlevy

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin · 1922

Same literary feel

57% genome match

East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

Same classic feel

50% genome match

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Same classic feel

50% genome match

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

Both explore guilt

57% genome match

Suite Francaise

Irene Nemirovsky · 2004

Same literary feel

50% genome match

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud

Same literary feel

50% genome match

O crime do Padre Amaro

Eça de Queiroz · 1875

Both explore social critique

50% genome match

Original Short Stories

Guy De Maupassant · 2025

Same classic feel

51% genome match