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Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner’s *Absalom, Absalom!* explores the ambitious, ultimately tragic story of Thomas Sutpen’s attempt to bui...

Classic American 20TH Century Southern

9.4 Excellent

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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary' delivers a captivating blend of science, humor, and suspense, narrated brilliantly by Ra...

Audiobook Adventure Sci Fi Character Driven

9.2 Excellent

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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen's beloved novel follows the spirited Elizabeth Bennet as she navigates the complexities of love, class, and...

Classic Character Driven 19TH Century Romance

9.2 Excellent

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Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne’s *Tristram Shandy* is a significant 18th-century English novel renowned for its highly unconventional n...

18TH Century Classic Experimental English

9.2 Excellent

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The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann’s *The Magic Mountain* explores themes of mortality, knowledge, and societal change through the story of Han...

German Philosophical Modernist 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino’s *Invisible Cities* presents a series of fantastical descriptions of cities imagined by Marco Polo for Ku...

Fantasy Italian Classic Postmodern

9.1 Excellent

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley is a psychological thriller exploring themes of identity and deception. It follows Tom Ripley’s...

Psychological Crime Social Commentary Thriller

8.7 Great

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Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a complex American novel exploring themes of entertainment, addiction, and commu...

American Satire Experimental Postmodern

8.7 Great

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Gilead

Gilead is Marilynne Robinson's 2004 epistolary novel by an Iowa minister, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

American 21ST Century Literary Faith

8.6 Great

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The Feast of the Goat

The Feast of the Goat is Mario Vargas Llosa's 2000 novel about Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic...

21ST Century Historical Political Peruvian

8.5 Great

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is Italo Calvino's 1979 Italian postmodern novel, built around a reader pursuing ten i...

Italian 20TH Century Experimental Postmodern

8.4 Great

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The Recognitions

William Gaddis’s *The Recognitions* explores themes of art, faith, and deception through a highly experimental narrative...

Classic American Postmodern Art

8.4 Great

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Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut’s *Cat's Cradle* explores themes of faith, scientific discovery, and human folly through a darkly humorous...

American Satire Postmodern Science Fiction

8.4 Great

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James’ *A Brief History of Seven Killings* explores a complex narrative rooted in Jamaica's political landscape d...

Crime Historical Political Jamaican

8.4 Great

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The Savage Detectives

The Savage Detectives is Roberto Bolano's 1998 Spanish-language novel about visceral realist poets in Mexico, winner of...

20TH Century Mexican Postmodern Chilean

8.2 Great

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Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore is Haruki Murakami's 2002 Japanese novel, interweaving a runaway teenager, an aging finder of lost ca...

Japanese 21ST Century Surreal Coming Age

8.0 Great

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A Mercy

A Mercy is Toni Morrison's 2008 novel set in late 17th-century colonial America, examining slavery, race, and dependence...

American 21ST Century Historical Colonial

7.7 Good

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The Atrocity Exhibition

The Atrocity Exhibition is a 1970 experimental novel by J. G. Ballard, notable for its fragmented structure and collisio...

Experimental English Postmodern Fragmented

7.7 Good

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1Q84

1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's 2009-2010 Japanese novel, a three-volume alternate-reality story named in reference to Orwell'...

Japanese 21ST Century Surreal Alternate History

7.5 Good

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The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant is Kazuo Ishiguro's 2015 novel set in post-Arthurian Britain, using fantasy to examine collective memor...

Fantasy 21ST Century British Literary

7.1 Good