swap_horiz Eileen Chang Alternatives

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist writing during the Regency period. Her six major novels, such as *Pride and Prejudic...

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.2 Excellent

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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a prominent French novelist born in 1871. He is best known for his monumental seven-volume work, *In S...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.2 Excellent

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov remains a significant figure in 20th-century literature. He was a Russian-American novelist celebrated...

Classic 20TH Century Literary Postmodern

9.2 Excellent

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is a prominent American novelist known for his stark depictions of human existence often set in the Amer...

American 20TH Century Dark Literary

9.1 Excellent

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Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was a significant 20th-century German novelist known for exploring complex psychological themes within his w...

German Psychological 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison was an American novelist primarily known for *Invisible Man*, published in 1952. This groundbreaking novel...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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James Baldwin

James Baldwin was a significant 20th-century American novelist and essayist. His writings, such as *Go Tell It on the Mo...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera was a Czech-French novelist celebrated for his profound explorations of human experience. His work, includ...

Philosophical 20TH Century Political Literary

9.0 Excellent

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J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger is a prominent 20th-century American novelist best known for *The Catcher in the Rye*. This classic work e...

Classic American 20TH Century Coming Of Age

8.8 Great

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Lu Xun

Lu Xun was a pivotal 20th-century Chinese novelist whose work significantly shaped modern Chinese literature. He is reco...

20TH Century Literary Chinese Modernism

8.6 Great

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V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British author widely recognized for his meticulously crafted novels and non-fiction work...

Classic 20TH Century British Literary

8.6 Great

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Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was an American author and photographer known for her literary portrayals of life in the American South. Sh...

Classic American 20TH Century Literary

8.5 Great

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Harper Lee

Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 debut novel, *To Kill a Mockingbird*, which won the Pulitzer...

Classic American 20TH Century Coming Of Age

8.4 Great

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Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer whose works of literary realism often explored the strug...

Classic Realism American 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Yu Hua

Yu Hua is a prominent Chinese author whose literary career spans avant-garde and realist fiction. He is best known inter...

Classic Contemporary Historical Literary

8.2 Great

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for his clear, unadorned prose...

Classic Realism 20TH Century British

7.8 Good

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Lao She

Lao She (1899–1966), born Shu Qingchun to a Manchu family in Beijing, was one of the most prominent Chinese novelists an...

20TH Century Tragedy Literary Chinese

7.6 Good

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Ba Jin

Ba Jin was a prominent 20th-century Chinese writer and anarchist thinker whose politically charged works left a signific...

20TH Century Family Saga Literary Chinese

7.3 Good

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Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer born in 1926. She is best known for her Manawaka sequen...

Classic Realism Canadian 20TH Century

7.3 Good

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Edna Ferber

Isaac Parker was a United States federal judge who served as judge of the Western District of Arkansas from 1875 to 1896...

Classic Epic American 20TH Century

6.3 Fair