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James

James is a 2024 novel by American author Percival Everett that retells Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from...

American Satire 21ST Century Revisionist

9.3 Excellent

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by Michael Chabon about Josef Kavalier, a Jewish refugee from...

American 21ST Century Historical Picaresque

9.2 Excellent

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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

8.8 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

8.7 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

8.7 Great

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Less

Less is a 2017 comic novel by American writer Andrew Sean Greer. Its protagonist, Arthur Less, is a middle-aged gay nove...

Travel American 21ST Century Comedy

8.1 Great

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A Walk on the Wild Side

A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by American writer Nelson Algren. Its picaresque narrative follows Dove Linkhorn...

American 20TH Century Picaresque Road Novel

7.9 Good

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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

*Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl* is a picaresque novel written by Andrea Lawlor and published in 2017. Set in the...

American 21ST Century Picaresque Queer

7.8 Good

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle is a novel by Rita Mae Brown published in 1973 that follows the life of Molly Bolt from her childhood i...

American Satire 20TH Century Queer

7.8 Good

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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is a 2021 debut novel by author Tom Lin that blends the traditional western genre with m...

Quest American 21ST Century Western

7.7 Good

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The Death of Vishnu

The Death of Vishnu is the 2001 debut novel by Indian-American author Manil Suri. The narrative is set in a Mumbai apart...

Indian 21ST Century Urban Social Satire

7.7 Good

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El vampiro de la colonia Roma

El vampiro de la colonia Roma is a 1979 novel by Mexican writer Luis Zapata that became an important work of modern Mexi...

20TH Century Urban Rogue Mexican

7.6 Good

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Gentleman of the Road

Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road, published in 2007, is a historical adventure novel set in the medieval Khazar Em...

Adventure American Medieval 21ST Century

7.6 Good

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The Last Witchfinder

The Last Witchfinder is a 2006 historical fiction novel by the American writer James Morrow. Its protagonist, Jennet, is...

Quest American Satire 21ST Century

7.2 Good

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Pym

Pym is a 2011 novel by the American writer Mat Johnson. It uses Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of...

Quest American Satire 21ST Century

7.1 Good

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The Fan Man

The Fan Man is a 1974 comic picaresque novel by American author William Kotzwinkle. The book is narrated in the erratic,...

American Comic 20TH Century Urban

7.1 Good

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Letty Fox: Her Luck

Letty Fox: Her Luck is a 1946 novel by Australian-born writer Christina Stead, her sixth novel. The narrator, Letty Fox,...

American Satire 20TH Century Urban

7.0 Good

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The Adventures of Wesley Jackson

The Adventures of Wesley Jackson is a 1946 American novel by William Saroyan, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company....

American 20TH Century War Picaresque

6.3 Fair

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Mitte 1

Mitte 1 is a German comic novel by Albrecht Behmel, published in 2013. It is the second episode in the Mitte series and...

German Contemporary Satire 21ST Century

5.8 Mediocre

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Mitte 2

Mitte 2 is a German comic novel by Albrecht Behmel, published in 2014. It is the third installment in the Mitte series a...

German Contemporary Satire 21ST Century

5.7 Mediocre