swap_horiz Jean-Christophe Alternatives

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Père Goriot

Père Goriot is a significant 19th-century French bildungsroman by Honoré Balzac. The novel follows Eugène de Rastignac’s...

French 19TH Century Ambition Social Class

9.1 Excellent

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Black Boy

Black Boy (1945) is Richard Wright's autobiographical account of his childhood and young adulthood in the Jim Crow-era A...

American 20TH Century Race Autobiographical

9.0 Excellent

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Ceremony

Ceremony is a 1977 novel by Leslie Marmon Silko, a writer of Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and Anglo-American heritage. The no...

20TH Century Identity Native American Healing

9.0 Excellent

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Green Henry

'Green Henry' is a classic German-language Bildungsroman written by the Swiss author Gottfried Keller. The novel follows...

Realism 19TH Century Identity Swiss German

8.8 Great

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The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a 1976 book by Maxine Hong Kingston that blends autobiography w...

20TH Century Identity Female Protagonist Kingston

8.8 Great

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The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel written by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of...

American 20TH Century Immigration Female Protagonist

8.7 Great

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Émile

*Émile, or On Education* is a 1762 treatise by the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, presented as a novel follo...

French Education Philosophical Enlightenment

8.6 Great

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Tonio Kröger

"Tonio Kröger" is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, first published in 1903. The story follows a young man of mixe...

German Modernist Identity Mann

8.6 Great

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Lives of Girls and Women

"Lives of Girls and Women" is a 1971 novel by Canadian author Alice Munro, structured as a linked sequence of stories fo...

Canadian 20TH Century Coming Of Age Female Protagonist

8.4 Great

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The Way to Rainy Mountain

The Way to Rainy Mountain is a 1969 book by Native American author N. Scott Momaday that chronicles the history and cult...

Heritage 20TH Century Identity Native American

8.4 Great

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Childhood (Gorky)

Childhood is the first volume of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, published in 1913. The book depicts the author'...

Russian 20TH Century Autobiographical Poverty

8.3 Great

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Goodbye, Columbus

"Goodbye, Columbus" is a literary collection published in 1959, marking the debut of American author Philip Roth. The bo...

American 20TH Century Identity Jewish American

8.3 Great

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The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark is a 1915 novel by American author Willa Cather. It is the second installment in her Prairie Trilog...

American 20TH Century Female Protagonist Artistic Growth

8.2 Great

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Obasan

Obasan is a 1981 novel by Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. The narrative follows Naomi Nakane, a Japanese-Canadian w...

Canadian 20TH Century War Kogawa

8.2 Great

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The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man is an unfinished picaresque novel by German author Thomas Mann, published...

German 20TH Century Satirical Picaresque

8.1 Great

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My Name Is Asher Lev

My Name Is Asher Lev is a 1972 novel by American author Chaim Potok. It traces the coming-of-age of a Hasidic Jewish boy...

American 20TH Century Religion Artistic Growth

8.1 Great

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

A 1959 Bildungsroman written by acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler. The novel follows the life of Duddy Kravitz,...

Canadian 20TH Century Identity Ambition

8.1 Great

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In the World

In the World is an autobiographical novel by Russian author Maxim Gorky, published in 1916. It serves as the second volu...

Russian 20TH Century Autobiographical Poverty

8.0 Great

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Studs Lonigan

Studs Lonigan is a naturalist trilogy written by American author James T. Farrell, published between 1932 and 1935. Comp...

American 20TH Century Urban Irish American

8.0 Great

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Bread and Wine

Bread and Wine is a political novel by Ignazio Silone, first published in 1936 and set in rural Italy under Benito Musso...

Italian 20TH Century Identity Political

7.9 Good