swap_horiz H.G. Wells Alternatives

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Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817) whose six major works, including 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813), established her as a foundat...

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.2 Excellent

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Charles Dickens

English Victorian novelist (1812–1870) whose serialized works, including 'Oliver Twist' and 'Great Expectations,' made h...

Classic 19TH Century British Victorian

9.1 Excellent

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Mark Twain

American humorist and novelist (1835–1910) whose 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) is widely regarded as a seminal...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

4

George Eliot

English novelist Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under a male pen name, renowned for her profound realist novels like *Middlem...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

9.0 Excellent

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Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet best remembered for her only novel, the 1847 gothic masterpiece *Wuthering Heights*, which is...

19TH Century Romance British Gothic

8.9 Great

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Herman Melville

American novelist (1819–1891) whose 'Moby-Dick' (1851), initially a commercial failure, is now considered one of the gre...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

8.8 Great

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Charlotte Brontë

English novelist and poet, the eldest of the Brontë sisters, whose 1847 masterpiece *Jane Eyre* remains a cornerstone of...

19TH Century Romance British Gothic

8.8 Great

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Philip K. Dick

American science fiction writer known for his philosophical and dystopian works, most notably the 1968 novel *Do Android...

Sci Fi American 20TH Century Dystopian

8.7 Great

9

Arthur Conan Doyle

Scottish writer best known for creating the iconic fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who debuted in the 1887 novel *A...

Adventure 19TH Century Detective Mystery

8.5 Great

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Alexandre Dumas

French historical novelist whose swashbuckling 1844 classics 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo' rema...

Adventure Classic French 19TH Century

8.5 Great

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Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet (1840–1928) whose works set in the fictional county of Wessex, including 'Tess of the d'Urberv...

Realism 19TH Century Tragedy British

8.3 Great

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Arthur C. Clarke

British science fiction writer and inventor renowned for the 1968 novel *2001: A Space Odyssey* and his concept of geost...

Sci Fi Classic 20TH Century British

8.3 Great

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William Gibson

American-Canadian speculative fiction writer widely credited with pioneering the cyberpunk subgenre with his 1984 debut...

Sci Fi Contemporary Cyberpunk Speculative

8.3 Great

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Aldous Huxley

English novelist (1894–1963) whose dystopian 'Brave New World' (1932) depicts a technologically controlled future societ...

Sci Fi Satire 20TH Century Dystopian

8.2 Great

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist celebrated for his 19th-century adventure fiction, including *Treasure Island* and the psychological n...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century Gothic

8.2 Great

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Daniel Defoe

English writer and trader notable for his 1719 novel *Robinson Crusoe*, which is widely considered a foundational work o...

Adventure 18TH Century Classic Realism

8.0 Great

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William Makepeace Thackeray

British novelist celebrated for his 1848 satirical masterpiece *Vanity Fair*, widely renowned for its sharp critique of...

Social 19TH Century Satire British

8.0 Great

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Neal Stephenson

American writer of speculative fiction known for his intricate, post-cyberpunk novels, particularly the 1992 work *Snow...

Sci Fi American Contemporary Cyberpunk

8.0 Great

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China Miéville

British speculative fiction author associated with the New Weird movement, acclaimed for his 2000 Bas-Lag novel *Perdido...

Sci Fi Contemporary British Political

7.9 Good

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Jules Verne

French novelist (1828–1905) regarded as a founder of science fiction, whose adventure novels including 'Twenty Thousand...

Adventure Sci Fi Classic French

7.8 Good