Books like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
12 books with a reading profile close to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Dombey and Son
narrative, classic literature
Paul Dombey runs his shipping house with a singular focus on patriarchal succession and commercial dominance.
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2
Prodigal Summer
narrative, classic literature
In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
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3
The works of Charles Dickens
narrative, classic literature
This 1877 collection compiles the narrative output of Victorian England’s most prominent novelist, spanning from early sketches to final unfinished manuscripts.
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4
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
narrative, classic literature
In fifteenth-century Paris, the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo lives within the stone walls of Notre-Dame Cathedral under the guardianship of Archdeacon Claude Frollo.
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5
Susan Lenox
narrative, classic literature
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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6
The White Tiger
narrative, classic literature
Balram Halwai, a chauffeur from a poverty-stricken village in rural India, details his rise to entrepreneurial success through a series of letters to the Chinese Premier.
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7
Bracebridge Hall
narrative, classic literature
Bracebridge Hall functions as a series of character sketches and observational essays centered on an idealized English country estate.
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8
Assommoir
by Émile Zola
narrative, classic literature
L’Assommoir documents the physical and moral decline of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress striving for domestic stability in the slums of Second Empire Paris.
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9
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor
narrative, classic literature
Maggie Tulliver grows up at Dorlcote Mill, torn between her intellectual curiosity and the rigid expectations of her provincial Victorian community.
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10
Hag-Seed
narrative, classic literature
Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
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11
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
narrative, classic literature
Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
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12
Bel-Ami
narrative, classic literature
Georges Duroy arrives in Paris as a penniless veteran with nothing but his appearance and a lack of scruples.
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