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Mister Johnson
Mister Johnson is a 1939 novel by Irish-born British writer Joyce Cary. Set in colonial Nigeria, it follows a young Nigerian clerk working for the British district administration at Fada, whose exuberant ambition and disregard for rules create conflicts with the colonial bureaucracy. The book uses c...
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The top alternative to Mister Johnson in 2026 is Journey to the End of the Night with a score of 9.3/10, followed by Moscow to the End of the Line (9.1) and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (9.1).
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s *Journey to the End of the Night* chronicles the experiences of Bardamu, a former soldier adrif...
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...
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...
Money: A Suicide Note
"Money: A Suicide Note" is a 1984 satirical novel by British author Martin Amis. The narrative follows John Self, a hedo...
Earthly Powers
"Earthly Powers" is a panoramic novel by British author Anthony Burgess, published in 1980. Narrated by the aging homose...
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
*The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews* is a 1742 comic novel by English author Henry Fielding. Initially conc...
The Family of Pascual Duarte
The Family of Pascual Duarte is a 1942 novel by Spanish writer Camilo José Cela, framed largely as the prison memoir of...
The Little Golden Calf
The Little Golden Calf is a satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, first published in 1931....
The Public Burning
The Public Burning is a 1977 novel by American author Robert Coover that fictionalizes the 1953 execution of Julius and...
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth’s *Portnoy’s Complaint* offers a candid, confessional narrative following Alexander Portnoy’s exploration of...
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Moor's Last Sigh is a novel written by British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, published in 1995. The narrative follow...
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...
Confessions of Felix Krull
Thomas Mann’s *Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man* is a German novel published in 1954. It tells the story of Fe...
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in serial form in 1843 and 1...
Flashman
George MacDonald Fraser’s *Flashman* presents a cynical portrait of a British officer during the late 19th century. The...
Ways of Dying
Ways of Dying is a novel written by South African author Zakes Mda, first published in 1995. The narrative centers on To...
The Stone Raft
Originally published in Portuguese in 1986, The Stone Raft is a novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago. The pl...
The Horse's Mouth
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Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh’s *Vile Bodies* portrays a disillusioned generation navigating post-war society in interwar England. The no...
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Herself Surprised is a 1941 novel by English writer Joyce Cary and the first volume of the trilogy later known as the Fi...
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