Books like…

Books Like Dubliners

by James Joyce · about this book

Loved Dubliners by James Joyce? If its classics, short stories and anthology hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Sabrina & Corina, Jane Eyre and Ham On Rye. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Dubliners: Classics · Short Stories · Anthology · Ireland · Literary Fiction

1. 

   Sabrina & Corina

   Kali Fajardo-Anstine

   Short Stories · Literary Fiction · Working-Class Protagonist · Substance Abuse · Lyrical Prose

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2. 

   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Religious Identity · Haunting

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3. 

   Ham On Rye

   Charles Bukowski

   Substance Abuse · Literary Fiction · Bleak · Classics · Working-Class Protagonist

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4. 

   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Faith Crisis · Classics · Literary Fiction · Classism · Dense Prose

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5. 

   Roadside Picnic

   Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

   Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Bleak · Substance Abuse · Literary Fiction

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6. 

   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Bleak · Classism · Haunting

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7. 

   The Mirror & the Light

   Hilary Mantel

   Literary Fiction · Haunting · Religious Identity · Working-Class Protagonist · Lyrical Prose

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8. 

   The News from Dublin: Stories

   Colm Tóibín

   Ireland · Short Stories · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Lyrical Prose

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9. 

   Of Mice and Men

   John Steinbeck

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Classism · Bleak

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10. 

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Working-Class Protagonist · Haunting · Dense Prose

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11. 

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Bleak · Faith Crisis · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Religious Identity

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12. 

    Perfume

    Patrick Süskind

    Literary Fiction · Haunting · Classics · Bleak · Lyrical Prose

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13. 

    The Complete Stories and Poems

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Short Stories · Classics · Bleak · Haunting · Dense Prose

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14. 

    Tom's Crossing

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Religious Identity · Haunting · Lyrical Prose

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15. 

    Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

    Laura Ruby

    Working-Class Protagonist · Coming of Age · Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Big City

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16. 

    In the Woods

    Tana French

    Ireland · Haunting · Bleak · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction

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17. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Classics · Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose

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18. 

    Brave New Worlds

    Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi

    Anthology · Short Stories · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Political Corruption

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19. 

    Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Working-Class Protagonist · Classism · Big City

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20. 

    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    Substance Abuse · Working-Class Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Coming of Age

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