Books like We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson reads as dark, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
83% genome match
Bunny
Mona Awad · 2019
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
71% genome match
Coraline
Neil Gaiman · 2002
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
69% genome match
Duma Key
Stephen King · 2008
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
69% genome match
The Cormorant
Stephen Gregory · 1986
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
69% genome match
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Shares the wonder + unreliable thread
71% genome match
Haunted
Joyce Carol Oates · 1994
Shares the unreliable thread
69% genome match
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks · 1984
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
73% genome match
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami · 1994
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
69% genome match
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Shares the unreliable + vhypno thread
69% genome match
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender · 2010
Shares the unreliable + wonder thread
69% genome match
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Shares the vhypno thread
83% genome match
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