Books like Train dreams
Train dreams by Denis Johnson reads as melancholic, stark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The crossing
Cormac McCarthy · 1994
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70% genome match
Devastation Road
Jason Hewitt · 2016
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69% genome match
The River
Peter Heller · 2019
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Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick · 2009
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Into the Forest
Jean Hegland · 1996
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First Blood
David Morrell · 1972
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69% genome match
Black helicopters
Blythe Woolston · 2013
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The reapers are the angels
Alden Bell · 2010
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A Sudden Country
Karen Fisher · 2005
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How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff · 2004
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940
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69% genome match
In the house in the dark of the woods
Laird Hunt · 2018
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69% genome match
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