9 Best classics books like Ulysses by James Joyce

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Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A…

"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

If you liked the classics plot in Ulysses by James Joyce , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

2. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Richard Howard, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Andreas Mayor

3. In Search of Lost Time

By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

4.34

Format: 4211 pages, Paperback

On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more

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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"

-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

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4. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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5. Joyce's Ulysses

By: James A.W. Heffernan

4.10

Format: 271 pages,

Dartmouth's Professor James A. W. Heffernan maps the brilliance, passion, humanity, and humor of Ja… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • irish literature

6. The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses

By: Harry Blamires

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Bla… read more

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7. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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8. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

9. Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion To James Joyce's Ulysses

By: None

4.10

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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11. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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  • irish literature
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

12. Ulysses And Us: The Art Of Everyday Living

By: Declan Kiberd

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Declan Kiberd argues that 'Ulysses', far from being the epitome of elitism, was always intended as … read more

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13. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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14. Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more

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15. James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study

By: Stuart Gilbert

4.06

Format: 244 pages,

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16. Ulysses

By: Hugh Kenner

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There is no book like "Ulysses," and no book about it quite like this one. Now completely revised t… read more

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17. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

18. Sim, Eu Digo Sim — Uma Visita Guiada ao Ulysses de James Joyce

By: Caetano W. Galindo

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Depois de publicar Ulysses, James Joyce disse que a receita para se tornar imortal era simples: bas… read more

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19. The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

By: Patrick Hastings

4.48

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves toge… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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20. Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey

By: Daniel Mulhall

4.13

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Marking the centenary of Ireland’s – and possibly the world’s – most famous novel, this joyful intr… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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21. Ulises: claves de lectura

By: Carlos Gamerro

4.53

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Borges solía bromear que nadie –ni siquiera él mismo– había leído el Ulises completo. La lectura de… read more

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7 must-read novels books like Ulysses by James Joyce

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

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The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

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Ex-wife

Ursula Parrott

3.96

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Ulysses Annotated

Don Gifford , Robert J. Seidman

3.73

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Ulysses

James Joyce

3.75

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