swap_horiz Rudyard Kipling Alternatives

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Leo Tolstoy

Nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy is known for expansive realist fiction that connects private experience...

Russian Classic Realism Epic

9.40 Excellent

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky's nineteenth-century Russian novels place moral and philosophical questions inside intensely pressured...

Russian Classic Realism 19TH Century

9.35 Excellent

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Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes worked across the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Don Quixote follows...

Adventure Classic Spanish Satirical

9.30 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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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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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was a significant 19th-century French novelist and poet. His impactful works, including *Les Misérables* and...

Classic French Social 19TH Century

9.00 Excellent

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George Eliot

George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, was a prominent 19th-century British novelist celebrated for her deeply realistic por...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

9.00 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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Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American novelist born in 1819. He is best known for *Moby-Dick*, a complex and influential novel...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

8.75 Great

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British novelist primarily recognized for developing the character of Sherlock Holmes. His stor...

Adventure 19TH Century Detective Mystery

8.50 Great

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was a prominent French novelist active in the 19th century. He is best known for his thrilling adventure...

Adventure Classic French 19TH Century

8.50 Great

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a prominent Scottish novelist of the 19th century. He is best known for works like *Treasure...

Adventure Classic 19TH Century Gothic

8.20 Great

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H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells was a British novelist profoundly influential in shaping science fiction. His imaginative explorations of tec...

Adventure Sci Fi 19TH Century British

8.00 Great

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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a nineteenth-century British novelist recognized primarily for his ima...

Fantasy Classic 19TH Century British

8.00 Great

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was an English writer, trader, and journalist who is widely recognized as an early pioneer of the English n...

Adventure 18TH Century Classic Realism

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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Jules Verne

French novelist (1828–1905) regarded as a founder of science fiction, whose adventure novels including 'Twenty Thousand...

Adventure Sci Fi Classic French

7.80 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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Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was a nineteenth-century English novelist and playwright associated with sensation fiction, a genre combi...

Classic 19TH Century Mystery British

6.99 Fair

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist whose historical romances helped establish the frontier as a major subjec...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

6.90 Fair