Books like War and Peace

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy reads as epic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Hong lou meng

Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin. · 1900

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

74% genome match

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy · 1878

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

69% genome match

Доктор Живаго

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 1957

Shares the lovetime + vornate thread

76% genome match

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

73% genome match

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

83% genome match

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 1905

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

Metamorphoses

Ovid · 1479

Shares the maximal + lovetime thread

69% genome match

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 1990

Shares the lovetime + maximal thread

69% genome match

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match