6 must-read fiction books like Sunless by Gerard Donovan

Cover of Sunless by Gerard Donovan

Sunless

By: Gerard Donovan

3.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Having lost both parents before adulthood to America's pill-popping culture, Sunless, whose actual …

If you liked the fiction plot in Sunless by Gerard Donovan , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Richard Maxwell

1. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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  • fiction
"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

2. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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3. Go Set a Watchman

By: Harper Lee

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more

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4. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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Cover of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

5. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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  • fiction
"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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6. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

7. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cover of Exhalation by Ted Chiang

8. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • fiction
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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9. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

By: John Green

4.36

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fict… read more

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"We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here."

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

"I...took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential,' in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn't actually have that much potential."

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

"One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of."

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

"I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of iso…"

-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Cover of Sunless by Gerard Donovan

10. Sunless

By: Gerard Donovan

3.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Having lost both parents before adulthood to America's pill-popping culture, Sunless, whose actual … read more

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18 Top fiction books like A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Richard Maxwell

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4.15

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3.89

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3.50

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