Books like You get so alone at times that it just makes sense

You get so alone at times that it just makes sense by Charles Bukowski reads as melancholic, cynical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Charles Bukowski · 1999

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77% genome match

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver · 1981

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69% genome match

Gates of Eden

Ethan Coen · 1998

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69% genome match

Man Descending

Guy Vanderhaeghe · 1982

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69% genome match

Tex

S. E. Hinton · 1979

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69% genome match

Maximum Bob

Elmore Leonard · 1991

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69% genome match

In the garden of the North American martyrs

Tobias Wolff · 1981

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69% genome match

Junky

William S. Burroughs · 1953

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69% genome match

Winner take nothing

Ernest Hemingway · 1933

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69% genome match

Like a House on Fire

Cate Kennedy · 2012

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69% genome match

The friends of Eddie Coyle

George V. Higgins · 1972

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69% genome match

Reasons to live

Amy Hempel · 1985

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69% genome match