11 must-read fiction books like Five by Doris Lessing

Five

By: Doris Lessing

3.89

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Contains A home for the highland cattle, The other woman, Eldorado, The antheap and Hunger.

If you liked the fiction plot in Five by Doris Lessing , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

1. The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more

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  • fiction
"Lonely was much better than alone."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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2. Dance Dance Dance

By: Haruki Murakami

4.05

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition here. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old … read more

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  • fiction
"I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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3. The Stepford Wives

By: Ira Levin

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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5. The Millstone

By: Margaret Drabble

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more

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  • fiction

6. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

5.00

Format: None pages,

Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she i… read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1) book and Doris Lessing's Five

  • fiction
Cover of Room by Emma Donoghue

7. Room

By: Emma Donoghue

3.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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  • fiction
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

9. The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more

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10. The Line of Beauty

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more

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11. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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12. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

13. The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.98

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…" These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded word… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Buddha of Suburbia

By: Hanif Kureishi

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more

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  • fiction
"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."

-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."

-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."

-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."

-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

Cover of I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

15. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

By: Abbi Jacobson

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully u… read more

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"Love revealed how covered up I was, but heartache broke me open."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"Real life is like a constant Yelp review, everyone has notes on how the experience could be improved."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"I thought about how pain is also a symptom of transformation. I thought about bouncing back. How we can start again. And again."

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

"From that poorly lit room on the top floor of a tiny mini mall in Sedona, a stranger told me exactly what I knew already. I guess that's what I was looking for, someone to see me and my fears and my …"

-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

16. Five

By: Doris Lessing

3.89

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Contains A home for the highland cattle, The other woman, Eldorado, The antheap and Hunger. read more

Similar categories in Doris Lessing's Five book and Doris Lessing's Five

  • science fiction
  • africa
  • short stories
  • fiction

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