swap_horiz The Confidence-Man Alternatives

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A dead man tells the story of his own life in Machado de Assis's 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. Writin...

19TH Century Satire Brazilian Metafiction

9.52 Brilliant

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James

Percival Everett's 2024 novel James revisits Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the perspective of Jim,...

American Satire 21ST Century Revisionist

9.34 Excellent

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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A dead narrator tells his own life story in Machado de Assis's Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, a Brazilian novel that...

19TH Century Satire Brazilian Unreliable Narrator

9.20 Excellent

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Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by American writer Mark Twain. Set in the fictional Mississippi River town...

American 19TH Century Episodic Mark Twain

8.89 Great

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of a young boy and an enslaved man navigating the Mississipp...

Classic American 19TH Century Rogue

8.85 Great

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Erasure

Erasure is a 2001 satirical novel by American author Percival Everett. The narrative follows Thelonious "Monk" Ellison,...

American Satire Publishing 21ST Century

8.84 Great

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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1844. It chro...

19TH Century Satire Rogue Irish

8.82 Great

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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr is a two-volume German novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann, published in 1819 and 1821....

German 19TH Century Satire Metafiction

8.71 Great

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz’s *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* explores the complex experiences of an isolated Dominican-American m...

American Satire 21ST Century Diaspora

8.70 Great

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The Public Burning

The Public Burning is a 1977 novel by American author Robert Coover that fictionalizes the 1953 execution of Julius and...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

8.63 Great

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol’s *Dead Souls* is a 19th-century Russian picaresque novel centered around Pavel Chichikov’s bizarre scheme...

Russian Classic 19TH Century Satire

8.49 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

8.45 Great

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is an 1857 novel by Herman Melville set aboard the Mississippi River steamboat Fidèle...

American 19TH Century Satire Episodic

8.22 Great

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Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex explores themes of identity and family through the life of Cal Stephanides, an American man...

American Satire 21ST Century Identity

8.04 Great

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The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1973 novel, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, is a picaresque work of fiction that dramatizes the...

American Activist Satire 20TH Century

8.02 Great

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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is a 1972 novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta, a Mexican-American attorney, activist, and wr...

American Satire 20TH Century Outsider

7.91 Good

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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....

Russian Satire 20TH Century Sequel

7.90 Good

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Bel-Ami

Bel-Ami is an 1885 novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant about Georges Duroy, a former soldier who advances through P...

Classic French 19TH Century Satire

7.89 Good

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Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias

"Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias" is a Brazilian novel written by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, originally published as...

Classic 19TH Century Satire Rogue

7.79 Good

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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...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

7.76 Good