Books like To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf reads as experimental, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner · 1929

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

83% genome match

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 1925

Shares the lovetime + vhypno thread

83% genome match

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce · 1916

Shares the vhypno thread

76% genome match

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust · 1913

Shares the lovetime + vhypno thread

70% genome match

The Hours

Michael Cunningham · 1998

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

76% genome match

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann · 1924

Shares the lovetime + vhypno thread

69% genome match

1Q84

Haruki Murakami · 2009

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

69% genome match

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Shares the grief + vhypno thread

71% genome match

The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot · 1922

Shares the maximal + vhypno thread

69% genome match

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan · 2010

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

69% genome match

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert · 1981

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

Call Me by Your Name

Andre Aciman · 2007

Shares the lovetime + vhypno thread

69% genome match