Books like Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada by Pablo Neruda reads as passionate, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Cien sonetos de amor

Pablo Neruda · 1960

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

78% genome match

Sappho

Sappho · 1887

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

84% genome match

Meghadūta

Kālidāsa · 1813

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

79% genome match

The Ink Dark Moon

Ono No Komachi · 1988

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

81% genome match

Heroides

Ovid · 1502

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

77% genome match

Winter of Summers

Michael Faudet · 2018

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

76% genome match

Sonnets

William Shakespeare · 1609

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra · 1997

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

La Petite Sirene (French Well Loved Tales)

Hans Christian Andersen · 1935

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

The Poems of Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell · 1857

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

70% genome match

The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1881

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen · 2006

Shares the romance thread

69% genome match