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Mr. Sammler's Planet
Mr. Sammler's Planet is a 1970 novel by Saul Bellow that follows Artur Sammler, an elderly Holocaust survivor and occasional lecturer in 1960s New York City. Through Sammler's observations of social disorder, violence and moral uncertainty, the book examines the relationship between inherited ideas...
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The top alternative to Mr. Sammler's Planet in 2026 is Austerlitz with a score of 9.5/10, followed by The Man Without Qualities (9.2) and In Search of Lost Time (9.2).
Austerlitz
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The Man Without Qualities
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In Search of Lost Time
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Gravity's Rainbow
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The Unnamable
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Jesus' Son
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The Passion According to G.H.
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
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Molloy
Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett, originally written in French and published in 1951. It is the first volume of a tri...
Conversation in the Cathedral
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Cancer Ward
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Malone Dies
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Spring Snow
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The Sleepwalkers
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Zeno's Conscience
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Man in the Holocene
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Tree of Smoke
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Humboldt's Gift
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Dangling Man
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The Name of the World
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