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Beloved

In Toni Morrison's Beloved, the aftermath of slavery reaches into a household struggling to live with memories that cann...

African American Fiction Award Winning Magical Realism

9.47 Excellent

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Mrs. Dalloway

A single day in post-First World War London frames Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925. Clarissa Dalloway...

Classic Drama Modernist 20TH Century

9.35 Excellent

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Hyperion

Published in 1989, Dan Simmons's space opera follows seven pilgrims traveling toward the Time Tombs on the planet Hyperi...

Space Opera Classic Literary Pilgrimage

9.28 Excellent

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Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, published in 2012, follows Thomas Cromwell through the Tudor court as Anne Boleyn's...

21ST Century Historical Political Literary

9.18 Excellent

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke’s *Piranesi* presents a compelling mystery centered on a solitary man living within an immense, interconn...

Mystery Literary Surreal Science Fiction Novel

9.02 Excellent

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Use of Weapons

Iain M. Banks’ *Use of Weapons* explores complex societal structures within the Culture, a utopian interstellar civiliza...

Space Opera Culture Literary Structure

8.91 Great

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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes’ *Flowers for Algernon* chronicles Charlie Gordon's extraordinary journey as he undergoes an experiment to...

Classic Literary Intelligence Science Fiction Novel

8.84 Great

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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee’s *Disgrace* explores profound moral questions within the context of post-apartheid South Africa. The novel...

Moral Literary South African Post Apartheid

8.82 Great

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The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons’ The Fall of Hyperion expands upon the epic saga initiated in *Hyperion*. This science-fiction novel follows...

Space Opera Literary Sequel War

8.65 Great

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A German Requiem

Occupied Vienna in 1947 forms the main setting of A German Requiem, Philip Kerr's 1991 historical crime novel. The third...

1990S Spy Novel Kerr Bernie Gunther

8.61 Great

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov’s *Lolita* is a complex and widely discussed novel exploring the dangerous infatuation of middle-aged l...

Classic Fiction Controversial Psychological

8.55 Great

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Silas Marner

Silas Marner is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, published in 1861. Its central character is a s...

Classic 19TH Century Literary Redemption

8.47 Great

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The Secret History

The Secret History by Donna Tartt explores the lives of a close-knit group of Classics students at Hampden College in Ve...

Psychological Literary 1990S Campus

8.33 Great

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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood’s *Oryx and Crake* presents a chilling vision of a future shaped by unchecked biotechnology. The novel d...

Literary Genetic Engineering Biotech Dystopia

8.16 Great

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The Glass Hotel

"The Glass Hotel" is a literary fiction novel published in 2020 by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel. The narrative...

Modern Parallel Literary Speculative

8.12 Great

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New Grub Street

George Gissing’s New Grub Street portrays the struggles of aspiring writers in late nineteenth-century London. The novel...

Classic Literary English Realist

8.02 Great

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro’s *Klara and the Sun* explores themes of humanity and artificial intelligence through the perspective of...

AI Climate Literary Near Future

8.01 Great

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A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance is a historical novel by Indian-Canadian author Rohinton Mistry, published in 1995. Set in India during t...

Indian 20TH Century Historical Literary

7.94 Good

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Suttree

"Suttree" is a novel written by American author Cormac McCarthy, first published in 1979. Set in the early 1950s, the na...

American 20TH Century Literary Southern

7.93 Good

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Anathem

Anathem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson set on Arbre, a world where scholars live in secluded communi...

Philosophy Hard SF Literary Science Fiction Novel

7.91 Good