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Blackass
Blackass is a 2015 debut novel by Nigerian author A. Igoni Barrett that reimagines Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" within a modern Lagos setting. The story follows Furo Wariboko, a young Black Nigerian man who wakes up on the morning of a job interview to find that he has transformed into a white...
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The top alternative to Blackass in 2026 is James with a score of 9.3/10, followed by The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (8.8) and The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane (8.8).
James
James is a 2024 novel by American author Percival Everett that retells Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1844. It chro...
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane is a picaresque novel written by the French author Alain-René Lesage, published...
Erasure
Erasure is a 2001 satirical novel by American author Percival Everett. The narrative follows Thelonious "Monk" Ellison,...
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex explores themes of identity and family through the life of Cal Stephanides, an American man...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz’s *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* explores the complex experiences of an isolated Dominican-American m...
Serious Men
Serious Men is a satirical novel written by Indian author Manu Joseph, published in 2010 as his debut work. The narrativ...
The Interpreters
The Interpreters is the debut novel by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, published in 1965. The narrative centers on a group...
The Madonna of Excelsior
The Madonna of Excelsior is a 2002 novel by South African author Zakes Mda, set against a real apartheid-era scandal in...
The Impressionist
The Impressionist is the 2002 debut novel by British author Hari Kunzru. Set during the era of British colonial rule, it...
Baudolino
"Baudolino" is a historical novel written by Italian author Umberto Eco, originally published in 2000. The story follows...
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is a 2004 Russian novel by Victor Pelevin. The story is narrated by A Hu-Li, a centuries...
The Slaughterman's Daughter
"The Slaughterman's Daughter" is a historical adventure novel written by Israeli author Yaniv Iczkovits, originally publ...
Cain
Cain is a novel by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, originally published in Portuguese in 2009. As his final...
Quichotte
Quichotte is Salman Rushdie's 2019 Don Quixote-inspired metafiction, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and set on a road...
The Last Witchfinder
The Last Witchfinder is James Morrow's 2006 historical novel about Jennet, who uses Enlightenment science to challenge E...
Divided Kingdom
Divided Kingdom is Rupert Thomson's 2005 dystopian picaresque, imagining Britain split into four temperament-based color...
Pym
Pym is Mat Johnson's 2011 satirical novel, using Edgar Allan Poe's only novel as a springboard for a comic Antarctic stu...
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's 2010 novel about a lonely salesman crossing Britain, noted for its...
The Amazing Journey of Pomponius Flatus
Eduardo Mendoza's 2008 comic historical novel follows a Roman investigator examining miracles and a murder in first-cent...
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