Books Like Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides · about this book

Loved Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides? If its literary fiction, multigenerational family and gender identity hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Cutting for Stone, 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 Middlesex: Literary Fiction · Multigenerational Family · Gender Identity · Intersex Representation · First Person Narrator

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Multigenerational Family · Sprawling Epic

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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee

Multigenerational Family · Immigration · Literary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Sprawling Epic

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Immigration · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · LGBTQ+ Protagonist · Immigrant Protagonist

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And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Multigenerational Family · Immigration · Literary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Character-Driven

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Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu

Immigration · Identity Formation · Literary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Self-Discovery

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The Catcher in the Rye
Jerome David Salinger

Bildungsroman · Identity Formation · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Character-Driven

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Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson

Multigenerational Family · Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction

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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte

Bildungsroman · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Character-Driven

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Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery · Sprawling Epic

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The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker

Immigration · Cultural Identity · Immigrant Protagonist · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green, David Levithan

Identity Formation · Coming of Age · LGBTQ+ Protagonist · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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Malas
Marcela Fuentes

Multigenerational Family · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Coming of Age

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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Coming of Age · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Big City

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid

LGBTQ+ Protagonist · Family Secrets · Character-Driven · Cultural Identity · Forbidden Love

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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Family Secrets · Cultural Identity · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator · Big City

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To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage

Coming of Age · LGBTQ+ Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Multigenerational Family

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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Nadia Hashimi

Gender Identity · Multigenerational Family · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Cultural Identity

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