swap_horiz Mott the Hoople Alternatives

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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole’s *A Confederacy of Dunces* is a celebrated 20th-century American novel exploring the eccentric lives...

Classic American Comic 20TH Century

8.9 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

8.5 Great

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The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor is John Barth's 1960 picaresque satire of colonial Maryland and the poet Ebenezer Cooke, marking his...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

8.4 Great

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The Dog of the South

The Dog of the South is Charles Portis's 1979 comic road novel, following Ray Midge from Arkansas toward Belize in pursu...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Two Serious Ladies

Two Serious Ladies is Jane Bowles's 1943 modernist novel, her only novel, following Christina Goering and Frieda Copperf...

American Satire 20TH Century Surreal

8.0 Great

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The Year of the Hare

The Year of the Hare is Arto Paasilinna's 1975 Finnish picaresque, following journalist Vatanen as he abandons city life...

Comic Satire 20TH Century Road

7.9 Good

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Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat is John Steinbeck's 1935 novel about Monterey paisanos after World War I, his first clear critical and com...

Classic American Comic 20TH Century

7.8 Good

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle is Rita Mae Brown's 1973 debut novel, a coming-of-age account of Molly Bolt notable for its open portra...

American Satire 20TH Century Queer

7.8 Good

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The Reivers

The Reivers is William Faulkner's 1962 final novel, a lighthearted Yoknapatawpha picaresque that won the 1963 Pulitzer P...

Classic American Comic 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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The Pea-Pickers

The Pea-Pickers is Eve Langley's 1942 Australian novel, a semi-autobiographical account of two sisters working as rural...

Classic Comic Australian 20TH Century

7.6 Good

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A Cool Million

A Cool Million is Nathanael West's 1934 American novel, a bleak parody of Horatio Alger success stories centered on Lemu...

American Satire 20TH Century Parody

7.5 Good

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The Howling Miller

The Howling Miller is Arto Paasilinna's 1981 Finnish novel about Gunnar Huttunen, whose howling and independence make hi...

Comic Satire 20TH Century Finnish

7.4 Good

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Faserland

Faserland is Christian Kracht's 1995 German-language debut novel, often credited with launching a new wave of German pop...

German Contemporary Satire 20TH Century

7.4 Good

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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 Richard Farina's 1966 comic campus picaresque, a counterculture novel publis...

American Satire 20TH Century Counterculture

7.2 Good

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The Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is G. K. Chesterton's 1914 comic satire, following Humphrey Pump and Patrick Dalroy as they evade England...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

7.1 Good

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Kinflicks

Kinflicks is Lisa Alther's 1976 debut novel, following Ginny Hull through 1960s identity crises and noted for frank femi...

American Satire 20TH Century Coming Of Age

7.1 Good

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's 2010 novel about a lonely salesman crossing Britain, noted for its...

Comic Satire 21ST Century British

7.0 Good

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Letty Fox: Her Luck

Letty Fox: Her Luck is Christina Stead's 1946 sixth novel, a New York first-person account often described as both picar...

American Satire 20TH Century Urban

7.0 Good

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My Search for Warren Harding

My Search for Warren Harding is Robert Plunket's 1983 debut novel, a comic picaresque about historian Elliot Weiner hunt...

Quest American Comic Satire

7.0 Good

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Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain is Jeffrey Moore's 1999 Canadian debut novel, following Jeremy Davenant and winner of the 2...

Comic Canadian Satire 20TH Century

6.7 Fair