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by Andre Dubus III · about this book

Loved House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III? If its literary fiction, tragic and multiple pov hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Kite Runner, Pachinko and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. 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 House of Sand and Fog: Literary Fiction · Tragic · Multiple POV · Loss of a Home · Male Lead

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   The Kite Runner

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   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Tragic · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Suicide Content · Literary Fiction

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   On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Haunting · Literary Fiction

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   Martyr!

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   Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Depression · Contemporary Fiction

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   Anna Karenina

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   Suicide Content · Fall From Grace · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Marriage in Trouble

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   Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

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   Cultural Identity · Immigrant Protagonist · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Male Lead

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   Of Mice and Men

   John Steinbeck

   Tragic · Bleak · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Racism

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   Blood Over Bright Haven

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   Class Struggle · Tragic · Racism · Bleak · Dark

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   Tender Is the Flesh

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   Bleak · Haunting · Intense · Marriage in Trouble · Male Lead

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    Black Cake

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    Cultural Identity · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction

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    The Great Gatsby

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    Fall From Grace · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Marriage in Trouble · Haunting

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    The Bee Sting

    Paul Murray

    Fall From Grace · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Contemporary Fiction · Marriage in Trouble

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    Interior Chinatown

    Charles Yu

    Immigration · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Contemporary Fiction

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    Human Acts

    Han Kang

    Tragic · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Multiple POV

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    The Border

    Don Winslow

    Immigration · Intense · Tense and Suspenseful · Marriage in Trouble · Multiple POV

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    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Multiple POV

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    The German Wife

    Kelly Rimmer

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Emotional

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    Parable of the Sower

    Octavia E. Butler

    Loss of a Home · Class Struggle · Bleak · Intense · Literary Fiction

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    Nowhere Boy

    Katherine Marsh

    Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Contemporary Fiction · Racism · Male Lead

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    The Road

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    Bleak · Suicide Content · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Male Lead

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