Books like Woyzeck

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner reads as bleak, tragic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Short stories

Tadeusz Borowski · 1959

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster · 1987

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

砂の女

Abe Kōbō · 1962

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Lenz

Georg Büchner · 1944

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The hothouse

Harold Pinter · 1980

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Bertolt Brecht · 1949

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69% genome match

Luces de bohemia

Ramón del Valle Inclán · 1924

Shares the vhypno thread

70% genome match

The collected stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis · 2009

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee · 1980

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Die Ermittlung

Peter Weiss · 1965

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

Comment c'est

Samuel Beckett · 1961

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

Chris Ware · 2000

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match