swap_horiz Fathers and Sons Alternatives

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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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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway is a 1925 modernist novel by British author Virginia Woolf that details a single day in the life of Clariss...

Classic Drama Modernist 20TH Century

9.4 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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Bring Up the Bodies

Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by British author Hilary Mantel, published in 2012 as the second book in her a...

21ST Century Historical Political Literary

9.2 Excellent

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Foundation

Foundation is the cornerstone of Asimov's sprawling Foundation series, depicting the fall of a vast Galactic Empire and...

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9.1 Excellent

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The Red and the Black

Stendhal’s *The Red and the Black* explores the complex motivations of Julien Sorel, a young man navigating 19th-century...

Classic French 19TH Century Political

9.1 Excellent

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Light in August

William Faulkner’s *Light in August* explores complex themes within rural Mississippi during the 1930s. The novel examin...

Classic American 20TH Century Southern

9.1 Excellent

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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman’s *Life and Fate* chronicles the devastating events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad during World Wa...

Russian 20TH Century Historical War

9.1 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 Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal’s *The Charterhouse of Parma* chronicles the intertwined lives of individuals within the Carthusian monastery o...

Classic French 19TH Century Political

8.9 Great

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Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov’s *Oblomov* portrays a nineteenth-century Russian nobleman consumed by apathy and inaction. The novel exp...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

8.8 Great

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, published in 189...

Classic 19TH Century English Tragic

8.7 Great

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is an 1831 historical novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in French as Notre-Dame de...

Classic French 19TH Century Hugo

8.5 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

8.5 Great

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's third published novel, released in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. It follows Fanny Price, a gir...

Classic Social 19TH Century Regency

8.4 Great

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda is George Eliot's final completed novel, published in 1876. The narrative intertwines two storylines: the...

Classic Social 19TH Century Victorian

8.3 Great

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a novel by Jane Austen that was published posthumously in 1817. The story follows Catherine Morland,...

Classic 19TH Century Gothic Regency

8.1 Great

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The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1851. It foll...

Classic 19TH Century Literary Gothic

7.9 Good

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in book form in 185...

Classic American 19TH Century Slavery

7.4 Good