book-alike

Noun

bookalike (plural bookalikes)

1. (informal) Something which closely resembles a book in some way.
   • We can therefore extend the benefit of the doubt to all the Shanghai girls, babies, dolls, etc. out there for their bookalikes, and even for their catty copycatting, though one hopes that, for the sake of the genre, China's banal book title formula of [CITY NAME] + [GENDER-SPECIFIC SOBRIQUET] will...2013 May 1, Tom Carter, “Shanghai Girls Gone Copy-Catty”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023