5 Best 20th century books like Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Cover of Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Good Morning, Midnight

By: Jean Rhys

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your…

"Quite like old times,' the room says."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"Quite like old times,' the room says."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"And then the days came when I was alone."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"And then the days came when I was alone."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

If you liked the 20th century plot in Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Crossing The River by Caryl Phillips

1. Crossing The River

By: Caryl Phillips

3.72

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
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2. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • feminism
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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

Cover of Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays) by Toni Morrison, Peter Sellars, Rokia Traoré

3. Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Toni Morrison , Peter Sellars , Rokia Traoré

3.86

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morri… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"We will never die again."

-Toni Morrison, Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays)

"Both died in and for love."

-Toni Morrison, Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays)

"Desire is nature's purest gift."

-Toni Morrison, Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays)

"We will be judged by how well we love."

-Toni Morrison, Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays)

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4. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • classics
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  • feminism
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  • 20th century
  • novels
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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5. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
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6. Selected Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield , Angela Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virgin… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • feminism
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • modern classics

7. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. The Playboy of the Western World

By: J.M. Synge

4.33

Format: None pages,

Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Stuff Happens

By: David Hare

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Stuff happens . . . And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistak… read more

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10. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

12. London Labour and the London Poor

By: Henry Mayhew , None

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Unflinching reports of London's poor from a prolific and influential English writerLondon Labour an… read more

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13. Thirteen Cents

By: K. Sello Duiker

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the postcard mountain and sea, has its own shad… read more

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14. 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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15. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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16. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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17. The Complete Cosmicomics

By: Italo Calvino , Tim Parks , William Weaver , Martin L. McLaughlin

4.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories-… read more

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18. Good Morning, Midnight

By: Jean Rhys

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • feminism
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  • 20th century
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  • novels
  • modern classics
"Quite like old times,' the room says."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"And then the days came when I was alone."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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19. The Mud Below

By: Annie Proulx

3.38

Format: 45 pages, ebook

Short story by Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker June 22, 1998. The Mud Below is the tal… read more

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20. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

By: Miranda Seymour

3.85

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean… read more

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