Books like Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome Klapka Jérôme reads as humorous, lighthearted. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Summer moonshine

P. G. Wodehouse · 1934

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Hippopotamus, The

Stephen Fry · 1994

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh · 1948

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

A House-Boat on the Styx

John Kendrick Bangs · 1895

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Blott on the Landscape

Tom Sharpe · 1975

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Condensed novels

Bret Harte · 1867

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Hullabaloo in the guava orchard

Kiran Desai · 1998

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Extracts from Adam's Diary / Eve's Diary)

Mark Twain · 1953

Both explore nature

57% genome match

Stalky & Co.

Rudyard Kipling · 1902

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

The Reluctant Widow

Georgette Heyer · 1946

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman · 1990

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match

Space Opera

Catherynne M. Valente · 2018

Shares the vornate thread

69% genome match