Books like What's eating Gilbert Grape

What's eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges reads as melancholic, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver · 1981

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69% genome match

A lie of the mind

Sam Shepard · 1986

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69% genome match

Tex

S. E. Hinton · 1979

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69% genome match

Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row

John Steinbeck · 1947

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69% genome match

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie · 2007

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69% genome match

The petrified forest

Robert E. Sherwood · 1935

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69% genome match

The sacred diary of Adrian Plass (aged 37 3/4)

Adrian Plass · 1987

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69% genome match

Hate That Cat

Sharon Creech · 2008

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69% genome match

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters · 1914

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69% genome match

Midnight cowboy ; a novel

James Leo Herlihy · 1965

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69% genome match

Ellen Foster

Kaye Gibbons · 1987

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69% genome match

The Flick

Annie Baker · 2014

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69% genome match