swap_horiz The Impressionist Alternatives

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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

9.34 Excellent

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Money: A Suicide Note

"Money: A Suicide Note" is a 1984 satirical novel by British author Martin Amis. The narrative follows John Self, a hedo...

Satire 20TH Century Rogue British

9.02 Excellent

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Earthly Powers

"Earthly Powers" is a panoramic novel by British author Anthony Burgess, published in 1980. Narrated by the aging homose...

Satire 20TH Century Historical British

9.01 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

8.84 Great

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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1844. It chro...

19TH Century Satire Rogue Irish

8.82 Great

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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane is a picaresque novel written by the French author Alain-René Lesage, published...

French Satire Rogue Lesage

8.78 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

8.70 Great

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" is a historical novel written by British author David Mitchell and published in...

Adventure 21ST Century Historical British

8.47 Great

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Serious Men

Serious Men is a satirical novel written by Indian author Manu Joseph, published in 2010 as his debut work. The narrativ...

Indian Satire 21ST Century Con Man

8.16 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

8.04 Great

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The Madonna of Excelsior

The Madonna of Excelsior is a 2002 novel by South African author Zakes Mda, set against a real apartheid-era scandal in...

Community Satire 21ST Century Episodic

8.02 Great

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London Fields

"London Fields" is a 1989 novel by British author Martin Amis that blends elements of a murder mystery with dark social...

Satire 20TH Century British Dark Comedy

8.01 Great

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Inside Mr. Enderby

"Inside Mr. Enderby" is a picaresque comic novel written by British author Anthony Burgess and published in 1963. It int...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

7.86 Good

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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is a 2004 Russian novel by Victor Pelevin. The story is narrated by A Hu-Li, a centuries...

Fantasy Russian Satire 21ST Century

7.78 Good

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Cain

Cain is a novel by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, originally published in Portuguese in 2009. As his final...

Satire 21ST Century Journey Revisionist

7.66 Good

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The Hippopotamus

The Hippopotamus is a 1994 comic novel by British author Stephen Fry. The protagonist is Ted Wallace, a washed-up, alcoh...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

7.63 Good

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Blackass

Blackass is a 2015 debut novel by Nigerian author A. Igoni Barrett that reimagines Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" wit...

Satire 21ST Century Transformation Nigerian

7.39 Good

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Quichotte

Quichotte is a 2019 novel by Salman Rushdie that adapts the structure and themes of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to...

Satire 21ST Century British Road

6.70 Fair

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Divided Kingdom

Divided Kingdom is a 2005 novel by British writer Rupert Thomson. It imagines a former United Kingdom divided into four...

Satire 21ST Century Dystopian British

6.50 Fair

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is the ninth novel by British author Jonathan Coe, first published in the United Kin...

Comic Satire 21ST Century British

6.40 Fair