12 Best classics books like Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Cover of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

3.78

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherw…

"So kindly,"

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

"So kindly,"

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

"So kindly,"

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

"in a world of groceries and sermons"

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

If you liked the classics plot in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

1. The Naked and the Dead

By: Norman Mailer

3.95

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more

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"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"

-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

Cover of Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4) by Lawrence Durrell

2. Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4)

By: Lawrence Durrell

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the post… read more

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"First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do - then you have to sleepwalk a little to reach it."

-Lawrence Durrell, Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4)

Cover of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

3. Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

3.78

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherw… read more

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"So kindly,"

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

"in a world of groceries and sermons"

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

"Whatever she might become she would never be static."

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

"They had something to do. They could escape from themselves."

-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

Cover of The Adventures of Augie March by Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow

4. The Adventures of Augie March

By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow

3.84

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more

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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March

Cover of The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2) by Booth Tarkington

5. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)

By: Booth Tarkington

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more

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Cover of Kim by Rudyard Kipling, None

6. Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling , None

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more

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7. The Old Wives' Tale

By: Arnold Bennett

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in… read more

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Cover of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

8. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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Cover of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee, None, Kathleen De Grave

9. The Jungle

By: Upton Sinclair , Earl Lee , None , Kathleen De Grave

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stoc… read more

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Cover of Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rølvaag

10. Giants in the Earth

By: O.E. Rølvaag

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Giants in the Earth(Norwegian: Verdens Grode) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Ro… read more

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Cover of Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

11. Sister Carrie

By: Theodore Dreiser

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving h… read more

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Cover of Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy, Benjamin DeMott

12. Of Human Bondage

By: W. Somerset Maugham , Maeve Binchy , Benjamin DeMott

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an … read more

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13. The Ambassadors

By: Henry James , Harry Levin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more

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14. An American Tragedy

By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more

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15. The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more

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16. The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more

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17. The Way of All Flesh

By: Samuel Butler

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Fleshis regarded b… read more

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18. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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19. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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20. The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more

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21. From Here to Eternity

By: James Jones

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler… read more

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12 Top fiction books like Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4)

Lawrence Durrell

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Adventures of Augie March

Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow

3.84

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12 Best fiction books like Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy, Benjamin DeMott

Transform Your Habits

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, & The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham , Somerset Maugham

3.77

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