Books like You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi reads as sensual, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

Pablo Neruda · 1924

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Manon Lescaut

Abbé Prévost

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Heartless

Marissa Meyer · 2000

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Sonnets

William Shakespeare · 1609

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

An arrow's flight

Mark Merlis · 1998

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Lovely War

Julie Berry · 2019

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Eva Luna

Isabel Allende · 1987

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1881

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Samarcande

Amin Maalouf · 1988

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

La Petite Sirene (French Well Loved Tales)

Hans Christian Andersen · 1935

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match

Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger · 2003

Shares the lovetime + romance thread

69% genome match