11 best-selling classics books like Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy, Benjamin DeMott

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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 …

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1. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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2. 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

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3. Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more

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

By: W. Somerset Maugham , Somerset Maugham

3.77

Format: 52 pages,

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5. Basil

By: Wilkie Collins

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, an… read more

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6. Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite

By: Anthony Trollope

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Since its first appearance in 1870, this has been regarded as one of Trollope's finest short novels… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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10. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels

11. 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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12. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography

By: Selina Shirley Hastings

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, a… read more

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13. 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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14. The Rainbow

By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more

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15. Three Loves

By: A.J. Cronin

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extreme… read more

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16. A Peculiar Grace

By: Jeffrey Lent

4.36

Format: 189 pages,

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17. 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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18. Sons and Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more

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19. Zuleika Dobson

By: Max Beerbohm

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said … read more

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20. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

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21. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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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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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