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The Magus
"The Magus" is a novel by British author John Fowles, originally published in 1966 and significantly revised in 1977. The plot follows Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who relocates to the Greek island of Phraxos to work as a teacher at an isolated boarding school. On the island, he meets Maurice C...
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The top alternative to The Magus in 2026 is Pale Fire with a score of 8.83/10, followed by Stoner (8.65) and Possession: A Romance (8.10).
Pale Fire
Published in 1962, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire takes the form of a poem by the fictional writer John Shade, surrounded...
Stoner
John Williams's Stoner follows William Stoner, a Missouri farm boy who enters the University of Missouri to study agricu...
Possession: A Romance
A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance links modern literary research with a hidden relationship between fictional Victoria...
Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night is a 1935 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, set within the fictional walls of Shrewsbury College, Oxford....
Villette
Villette is an 1853 novel by Charlotte Brontë that draws heavily on her own experiences teaching at a boarding school in...
Sanshiro
Sanshiro is a 1908 novel by Japanese author Natsume Soseki that chronicles the intellectual and emotional coming-of-age...
The Glass Bead Game
"The Glass Bead Game" is a 1943 novel by the German-born Swiss author Hermann Hesse, originally published in German as "...
The Bell Jar
"The Bell Jar" is a 1963 novel by American writer Sylvia Plath, originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas....
Steppenwolf
"Steppenwolf" is a novel by Hermann Hesse, first published in German in 1927. The protagonist, Harry Haller, is a middle...
The Club Dumas
"The Club Dumas" is a 1993 novel by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The protagonist, Lucas Corso, is a mercenary ra...
The Corrections
"The Corrections" is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen that won the National Book Award for Fiction. The...
Sentimental Education
"Sentimental Education" (French: "L'Éducation sentimentale") is an 1869 novel by French author Gustave Flaubert. The sto...
Franny and Zooey
"Franny and Zooey" is a 1961 novel by American author J.D. Salinger, consisting of two linked novellas originally publis...
Narcissus and Goldmund
"Narcissus and Goldmund" is a 1930 novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse, set in medieval Germany. The narrative co...
Demian
"Demian" is a 1919 coming-of-age novel by the German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. The story is narrated by Emil Sinclair,...
The Likeness
"The Likeness" is a 2008 mystery novel by Tana French and the second installment in her Dublin Murder Squad series. The...
Cat and Mouse
Cat and Mouse is a 1961 novella by German writer Günter Grass and the second volume of his Danzig Trilogy. Set during th...
Letting Go
Letting Go is a novel by American author Philip Roth, published in 1962 as his first full-length work following his debu...
The Group
The Group is a 1963 novel by Mary McCarthy that follows a group of eight women who graduate from Vassar College in 1933...
The Sleep of Reason
The Sleep of Reason is a 1968 novel by C. P. Snow in the Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set within the moral and insti...
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