Books like The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
12 books with a reading profile close to The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Kim
Also deep · narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of late nineteenth-century British India, the story follows Kimball O’Hara, an orphaned white boy living as a street-wise urchin in Lahore.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
narrative, literary
Joe Kavalier, a magician and escape artist, flees Nazi-occupied Prague and arrives in New York City to live with his cousin, Sammy Clay.
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The works of Charles Dickens
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
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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Dombey and Son
narrative, literary
Paul Dombey runs his shipping house with a singular focus on patriarchal succession and commercial dominance.
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Susan Lenox
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
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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Assommoir
by Émile Zola
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
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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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Billy Lynn is a nineteen-year-old American soldier who has become a hero after a firefight in Iraq, which was caught on camera.
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Bracebridge Hall
narrative, literary
Bracebridge Hall functions as a series of character sketches and observational essays centered on an idealized English country estate.
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Prodigal Summer
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In the humid mountains of southern Appalachia, three narrative threads intersect through the lens of evolutionary biology and ecological interdependence.
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The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Also deep · narrative, literary
This collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories is built around a frame tale.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
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