7 Best classics books like Selected Tales and Poems by Herman Melville

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Selected Tales and Poems

By: Herman Melville

3.58

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

Benito Cereno -- Bartleby the Scrivener -- Jimmy Rose -- The Fiddler -- The Lightning-Rod man -…

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Cover of The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester

1. The Map That Changed the World

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing th… read more

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2. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Castle by Franz Kafka, Mark Harman, Regaip Minareci, None

3. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) by C.S. Lewis

4. The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.05

Format: 221 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure NARNIA...where the wo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"this is a book about something"

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

Cover of Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24) by Agatha Christie

5. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)

By: Agatha Christie

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Amyas Crale, un peintre celebre, a ete assassine, et sa femme, condamnee pour ce meurtre. Seize ans… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Monty

6. The Beautiful and Damned

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

7. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

8. Confessions

By: Kanae Minato , Stephen Snyder

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge. After an engagement that ended in t… read more

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9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By: Ken Kesey

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, … read more

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10. Selected Tales and Poems

By: Herman Melville

3.58

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

Benito Cereno -- Bartleby the Scrivener -- Jimmy Rose -- The Fiddler -- The Lightning-Rod man -… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction

7 Top fiction books like Selected Tales and Poems by Herman Melville

Transform Your Habits

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

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The Castle

Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

C.S. Lewis

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)

Agatha Christie

5.00

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24 Best fiction books like The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

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The Kreutzer Sonata

Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

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