swap_horiz P.G. Wodehouse Alternatives

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J.R.R. Tolkien

An English author and scholar, J.R.R. Tolkien gave high fantasy an influential model of a fully imagined world with its...

Fantasy Epic World Building 20TH Century

9.20 Excellent

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen's six major novels portray English social life through courtship and the pressures of family relationships....

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.15 Excellent

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George Orwell

British novelist and essayist George Orwell examined the relationship between political power and the language used to j...

Satire 20TH Century Dystopian British

9.15 Excellent

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Marcel Proust

Born in 1871, French novelist Marcel Proust built In Search of Lost Time around the changing relationship between memory...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.15 Excellent

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a prominent English novelist writing during the Victorian period (1812-1870). His influential works,...

Classic 19TH Century British Victorian

9.05 Excellent

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American novelist born in 1835 and died in 1910. He is primarily known for his impactful works like *A...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

8.95 Great

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was a significant 20th-century British novelist known for her innovative use of stream-of-consciousness t...

20TH Century British Feminist Modernism

8.80 Great

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an 18th-century Anglo-Irish novelist and satirist. He is most celebrated for *Gulliver’s Travels*, a...

18TH Century Classic Satire Political

8.80 Great

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Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was a highly influential British novelist recognized for creating the expansive Discworld series. His wo...

Fantasy Comic 20TH Century British

8.80 Great

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was a highly influential 20th-century American novelist renowned for his extensive science fiction works. H...

Sci Fi Classic American 20TH Century

8.55 Great

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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke was a prominent British science fiction novelist recognized for his visionary storytelling and technolo...

Sci Fi Classic 20TH Century British

8.30 Great

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Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was a British novelist prominent in 20th-century literature. His work, often categorized as social satire,...

Social Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.25 Great

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was a prominent British novelist born in 1894 and died in 1963. He is best known for his 1932 novel Brave...

Sci Fi Satire 20TH Century Dystopian

8.20 Great

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was an 18th-century Irish-born English novelist and Anglican clergyman best remembered for his experimen...

18TH Century Classic Comic Experimental

7.95 Good

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V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian-British author widely recognized for his meticulously crafted novels and non-fiction work...

Classic 20TH Century British Literary

7.91 Good

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707–1754) was an English novelist, playwright, and magistrate central to the development of the English...

18TH Century Classic Social Comic

7.75 Good

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John le Carré

John le Carré, the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, was a British author celebrated for his psychologically comple...

Classic 20TH Century British Thriller

7.36 Good

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for his clear, unadorned prose...

Classic Realism 20TH Century British

7.18 Good

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Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming was a British author and journalist best known as the creator of the fictional spy James Bond. Drawing on hi...

Classic 20TH Century British Thriller

6.90 Fair

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Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer active during the 20th century. She is bes...

Classic 20TH Century Suspense British

6.90 Fair