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The Group
Mary McCarthy's 1963 bestselling novel follows eight Vassar College graduates navigating careers, sexuality, and marriage in 1930s New York.
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The top alternative to The Group in 2026 is Stoner with a score of 9.4/10, followed by A Prayer for Owen Meany (8.7) and No Longer Human (8.7).
Stoner
John Williams’ *Stoner* chronicles the life of Edwin “Stoner” Grant, a Midwestern student at Midwestern State Teachers C...
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving’s *A Prayer for Owen Meany* explores faith, friendship, and destiny through the story of John Wheelwright an...
No Longer Human
No Longer Human is an influential 1948 novel by Osamu Dazai. It portrays the isolation and psychological struggles of a...
Villette
Charlotte Brontë's 1853 novel drawing on her years as a teacher in Brussels, following an Englishwoman who forges an ind...
Sanshiro
Natsume Soseki's 1908 novel following a naive provincial youth who arrives at Tokyo Imperial University and is gradually...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath's 1963 semi-autobiographical novel follows a young woman's mental breakdown, first published under the pseu...
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert's 1869 French novel following a young provincial student's romantic and political disillusionment acros...
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger's 1961 novel, comprising two linked stories first published in The New Yorker, depicts Franny Glass's spir...
Demian
Demian is a 1919 coming-of-age novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse that explores Jungian psychoanalytic themes an...
A Separate Peace
John Knowles's 1959 American novel set at a New England boys' boarding school during World War II, exploring friendship,...
The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil's 1906 Austrian debut novel set at a military boarding school, in which a boy observes and participates in...
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe's 1929 autobiographical debut novel traces Eugene Gant's youth in rural North Carolina through his first ye...
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass's 1961 novella, the second part of his Danzig Trilogy, set in wartime Danzig and centered on a boy whose un...
The Magus
John Fowles's 1966 novel, substantially revised in 1977, in which a young English teacher on a Greek island is drawn int...
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 debut novel set at Princeton University depicts postwar American youth disillusionment and la...
The Rotters' Club
Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel set in 1970s Birmingham follows grammar-school boys against a backdrop of industrial unrest, t...
Letting Go
Philip Roth's 1962 debut full-length novel set largely at the University of Chicago, charting the moral entanglements of...
The House of Sleep
Jonathan Coe's 1997 British novel set partly at a seaside university, structured around sleep disorders, which won Franc...
Roderick Hudson
Henry James's 1875 novel, considered his first mature work in book form, following a young American sculptor brought to...
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon's 1988 debut novel set in Pittsburgh over the summer following his protagonist's college graduation, whic...
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