swap_horiz William Makepeace Thackeray Alternatives

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Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817) whose six major works, including 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813), established her as a foundat...

Classic 19TH Century Romance British

9.2 Excellent

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George Orwell

British novelist and essayist (1903–1950) best known for the dystopian 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949) and the allegorical...

Satire 20TH Century Dystopian British

9.2 Excellent

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Charles Dickens

English Victorian novelist (1812–1870) whose serialized works, including 'Oliver Twist' and 'Great Expectations,' made h...

Classic 19TH Century British Victorian

9.1 Excellent

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Victor Hugo

French Romantic novelist and poet (1802–1885) whose monumental works 'Les Misérables' (1862) and 'The Hunchback of Notre...

Classic French Social 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Mark Twain

American humorist and novelist (1835–1910) whose 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) is widely regarded as a seminal...

Adventure Classic American 19TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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George Eliot

English novelist Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under a male pen name, renowned for her profound realist novels like *Middlem...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

9.0 Excellent

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Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet best remembered for her only novel, the 1847 gothic masterpiece *Wuthering Heights*, which is...

19TH Century Romance British Gothic

8.9 Great

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Charlotte Brontë

English novelist and poet, the eldest of the Brontë sisters, whose 1847 masterpiece *Jane Eyre* remains a cornerstone of...

19TH Century Romance British Gothic

8.8 Great

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Honoré de Balzac

French realist novelist (1799–1850) whose interconnected series 'La Comédie humaine' comprises nearly 100 novels and sto...

Classic French Realism Social

8.6 Great

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Scottish writer best known for creating the iconic fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who debuted in the 1887 novel *A...

Adventure 19TH Century Detective Mystery

8.5 Great

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Émile Zola

French naturalist novelist (1840–1902) whose 20-novel Rougon-Macquart cycle and his open letter 'J'Accuse' (1898) in the...

French Realism Social 19TH Century

8.4 Great

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E.M. Forster

English novelist famous for his works examining class and hypocrisy in early 20th-century Britain, notably *Howards End*...

Social 20TH Century British Literary

8.4 Great

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Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet (1840–1928) whose works set in the fictional county of Wessex, including 'Tess of the d'Urberv...

Realism 19TH Century Tragedy British

8.3 Great

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Edith Wharton

American novelist (1862–1937) and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1921 for 'The Age of Innocence'...

Realism American Social 19TH Century

8.3 Great

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P.G. Wodehouse

English comic novelist renowned for his humorous fiction, particularly his stories featuring the bumbling Bertie Wooster...

Classic Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Evelyn Waugh

English novelist celebrated for his sharp satirical wit, best known for novels such as *Decline and Fall* and the classi...

Social Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Aldous Huxley

English novelist (1894–1963) whose dystopian 'Brave New World' (1932) depicts a technologically controlled future societ...

Sci Fi Satire 20TH Century Dystopian

8.2 Great

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Ivan Turgenev

Russian novelist whose 1862 work Fathers and Sons introduced the concept of nihilism and captured 19th-century Russian s...

Russian Classic Realism Social

8.2 Great

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H.G. Wells

English author (1866–1946) widely considered a founder of science fiction, whose works 'The Time Machine' (1895) and 'Th...

Adventure Sci Fi 19TH Century British

8.0 Great

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Anthony Trollope

English Victorian novelist best known for his *Chronicles of Barsetshire* series, which vividly and realistically depict...

Realism Social 19TH Century British

7.7 Good