Books like Wild seed

Wild seed by Octavia E. Butler reads as dark, intense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler · 1987

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71% genome match

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1985

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69% genome match

Ammonite

Nicola Griffith · 1993

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69% genome match

The Queen of Attolia

Megan Whalen Turner · 2000

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69% genome match

Monsters of men

Patrick Ness · 2010

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69% genome match

Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy · 1976

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69% genome match

The Black Tides of Heaven

Neon Yang · 2017

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69% genome match

The Faded Sun

C. J. Cherryh · 1979

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69% genome match

The collected stories of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick · 1987

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69% genome match

Shade's children

Garth Nix · 1997

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69% genome match

The Earthsea quartet

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1977

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69% genome match

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