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James

Percival Everett's 2024 novel James revisits Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the perspective of Jim,...

American Satire 21ST Century Revisionist

9.34 Excellent

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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

"The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" is a novel by the Portuguese author and Nobel laureate José Saramago, originally...

Satire 20TH Century Historical Portuguese

9.06 Excellent

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Moscow to the End of the Line

"Moscow to the End of the Line" (Moskva-Petushki) is a Russian prose poem written by Venedikt Erofeev in 1969. The narra...

Travel Russian Satire 20TH Century

9.05 Excellent

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The Public Burning

The Public Burning is a 1977 novel by American author Robert Coover that fictionalizes the 1953 execution of Julius and...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

8.63 Great

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Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth’s *Portnoy’s Complaint* offers a candid, confessional narrative following Alexander Portnoy’s exploration of...

American Satire 20TH Century Confessional

8.45 Great

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The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1973 novel, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, is a picaresque work of fiction that dramatizes the...

American Activist Satire 20TH Century

8.02 Great

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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is a 1972 novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta, a Mexican-American attorney, activist, and wr...

American Satire 20TH Century Outsider

7.91 Good

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The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by John Barth, structured as a picaresque satire set in late-seventeenth-century Mar...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

7.76 Good

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The Dog of the South

"The Dog of the South" is a 1979 picaresque and comic novel by American author Charles Portis. The narrative follows Ray...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

7.55 Good

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Hasta no verte Jesús mío

Hasta no verte Jesús mío is a 1969 novel by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, constructed from extensive interviews with...

Satire 20TH Century Mexican Testimonial

7.46 Good

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Two Serious Ladies

Published in 1943, Two Serious Ladies is a modernist novel by American writer Jane Bowles, and it remains her only compl...

American Satire 20TH Century Surreal

7.38 Good

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The Road to Wellville

T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Road to Wellville is a 1993 historical novel set around the health-reform culture of Battle C...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

7.31 Good

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle is a novel by Rita Mae Brown published in 1973 that follows the life of Molly Bolt from her childhood i...

American Satire 20TH Century Queer

7.17 Good

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A Cool Million

Published in 1934, A Cool Million is a satirical novel by American author Nathanael West. The narrative systematically d...

American Satire 20TH Century Parody

6.94 Fair

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is the only published novel by American writer Richard Fariña. First issued in...

American Satire 20TH Century Counterculture

6.61 Fair

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Letty Fox: Her Luck

Letty Fox: Her Luck is a 1946 novel by Australian-born writer Christina Stead, her sixth novel. The narrator, Letty Fox,...

American Satire 20TH Century Urban

6.46 Fair

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A Start in Life

A Start in Life is an 1842 French novel by Honoré de Balzac and a work in his larger series La Comédie humaine. The nove...

Satire 20TH Century Crime British

6.42 Fair

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My Search for Warren Harding

My Search for Warren Harding is the 1983 debut novel of American writer Robert Plunket. Its narrator, Elliot Wiener, is...

Quest American Comic Satire

6.41 Fair

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople is a comic picaresque novel by the American writer Willard Manus, published in 1966. It follows Norman M...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

5.71 Mediocre

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Ten Men

Ten Men is a 2005 British novel by Alexandra Gray. It is structured as an episodic first-person account in which an Engl...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

5.45 Mediocre