If Sirius’s struggle to reconcile his engineered mind with his canine instincts—and the way Thomas Trelone’s experiment forces him to ask what a “person” is—moved you, you’ll be gripped by Never Let Me Go. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy slowly uncover the purpose behind their existence, and the novel lingers—like Sirius’s scent-music—on memory, love, and the ethics of creating life for human ends. It has that same intimate, melancholy hush you felt in Sirius’s final days on the moor, asking unanswerable questions with heartbreaking clarity.

Sirius’s life is charted from puppyhood through a hard-won brilliance to social isolation, and that arc echoes in Flowers for Algernon. Through Charlie’s own journal entries, you’ll feel the exhilaration of new intelligence, the sting of condescension, and the loneliness that follows—very much like Sirius’s uneasy place between kennel and concert hall, between Plaxy’s love and the town’s suspicion. It captures the same raw, first-hand emotional climb and the devastating view from the peak.

If you were fascinated by the way Sirius’s intellect forces everyone—from Plaxy to the Welsh villagers—to renegotiate the word “human,” More Than Human offers a haunting companion. Sturgeon’s group of outcasts forms a single gestalt being, raising the same questions Trelone’s experiment does: responsibility, empathy, and the moral horizon of a new kind of mind. Like Sirius’s scent-symphonies, their union is strange, beautiful, and deeply unsettling.

The way Sirius and Plaxy grow from playmates into each other’s refuge is mirrored in A Closed and Common Orbit. An AI, shunted into an illegal body, must relearn the world with the help of her human friend. Their gradual trust, private jokes, and fierce loyalty echo Plaxy defending Sirius when the community grows hostile and he’s blamed for killings he didn’t commit. It’s a gentler future than Sirius’s wartime Britain, but it honors the same heart-deep companionship.

If Thomas Trelone’s laboratory and Sirius’s tragic fate left you wrestling with the creator’s responsibility, The Island of Doctor Moreau cuts to the bone. Moreau’s Beast Folk—shaped from animals into speaking, suffering people—face the same cruel question Sirius does: are they experiment, pet, or person? Where Sirius is loved by Plaxy yet hunted by a mob, Wells shows what happens when love is absent and only power remains. It’s the stark, cautionary mirror to Sirius’s story.