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Books Like Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov · about this book

Loved Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov? If its classics, literary fiction and unreliable narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Perfume, The Great Gatsby and As I Lay Dying. 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 Lolita: Classics · Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · First Person Narrator · Villain Protagonist

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   Perfume

   Patrick Süskind

   Villain Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Childhood Trauma · Classics

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classics · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Tragic

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   As I Lay Dying

   William Faulkner

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Dense Prose · Unreliable Narrator

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   In the Woods

   Tana French

   Unreliable Narrator · Childhood Trauma · Psychological Manipulation · Lyrical Prose · First Person Narrator

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5. 

   Black Leopard, Red Wolf

   Marlon James

   Unreliable Narrator · Sexual Assault Content · Child Abuse · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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6. 

   1984

   George Orwell

   Classics · Psychological Manipulation · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Literary Fiction

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   Never Let Me Go

   Kazuo Ishiguro

   Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction · Tragic · First Person Narrator · Classics

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8. 

   Fight Club

   Chuck Palahniuk

   Unreliable Narrator · Classics · Literary Fiction · Psychological Manipulation · First Person Narrator

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9. 

   The Kite Runner

   Khaled Hosseini

   Sexual Assault Content · Childhood Trauma · Literary Fiction · Tragic · First Person Narrator

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10. 

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Villain Protagonist · Unreliable Narrator · Tragic

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11. 

    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Loss of Innocence · Unreliable Narrator · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Tragic

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12. 

    The Lovely Bones

    Alice Sebold

    Sexual Assault Content · Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction · Tragic · First Person Narrator

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13. 

    Half His Age

    Jennette McCurdy

    Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction · Psychological Manipulation · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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14. 

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Child Abuse · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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15. 

    Gone Girl

    Gillian Flynn

    Unreliable Narrator · Villain Protagonist · Psychological Manipulation · First Person Narrator · Dark

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16. 

    Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

    Unreliable Narrator · Literary Fiction · Psychological Manipulation · Lyrical Prose · First Person Narrator

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17. 

    Burnt Sugar

    Avni Doshi

    Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Childhood Trauma · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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18. 

    I, Medusa

    Ayana Gray

    Loss of Innocence · Villain Protagonist · Tragic · Sexual Assault Content · First Person Narrator

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19. 

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    Loss of Innocence · Classics · Tragic · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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20. 

    Ham On Rye

    Charles Bukowski

    Child Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Literary Fiction · Classics · First Person Narrator

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