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The Magus
John Fowles's 1966 novel, substantially revised in 1977, in which a young English teacher on a Greek island is drawn into the elaborate psychological games of a reclusive millionaire.
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The top alternative to The Magus in 2026 is Pale Fire with a score of 9.6/10, followed by Stoner (9.4) and Kokoro (9.1).
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov’s *Pale Fire* is a 1962 novel centered around a disastrous academic expedition to a remote American uni...
Stoner
John Williams’ *Stoner* chronicles the life of Edwin “Stoner” Grant, a Midwestern student at Midwestern State Teachers C...
Kokoro
Kokoro is a significant literary work by Natsume Soseki set in Japan’s Meiji Era. The novel centers on the evolving rela...
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus is Thomas Mann’s sprawling 1947 novel exploring themes of ambition and morality through the story of Adri...
Possession: A Romance
A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel in which two British scholars uncover a secret Victorian love affair betwee...
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies's 1970 novel, first in the Deptford trilogy, is narrated by a retired Canadian schoolmaster reflecting...
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving's 1989 novel set partly at a New Hampshire prep school and college, in which an extraordinary boy convinces...
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai's 1948 semi-autobiographical Japanese novel tracing a young man's alienation, alcoholism, and moral collapse...
Gaudy Night
1935 mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers set at fictional Shrewsbury College, Oxford, in which Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wims...
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 Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse's 1943 German novel set in a future intellectual utopia called Castalia, for which Hesse was awarded the N...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath's 1963 semi-autobiographical novel follows a young woman's mental breakdown, first published under the pseu...
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 Spanish novel in which a mercenary rare-book dealer investigates a 17th-century manuscript r...
The Corrections
The Corrections is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen that won the National Book Award and frequently util...
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger's 1961 novel, comprising two linked stories first published in The New Yorker, depicts Franny Glass's spir...
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...
Letting Go
Philip Roth's 1962 debut full-length novel set largely at the University of Chicago, charting the moral entanglements of...
The Group
Mary McCarthy's 1963 bestselling novel follows eight Vassar College graduates navigating careers, sexuality, and marriag...
The Sleep of Reason
C.P. Snow's 1968 Strangers and Brothers novel, loosely inspired by the Moors murders, examines the limits of liberal hum...
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