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Books Like Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie · about this book

Loved Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie? If its literary fiction, magical realism and satire hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with And the Mountains Echoed, Malas and Life After Life. 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 Midnight's Children: Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Satire · India · Historical Fiction

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   And the Mountains Echoed

   Khaled Hosseini

   Multiple Timelines · War and Its Aftermath · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Cultural Identity

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   Malas

   Marcela Fuentes

   Magical Realism · Multigenerational Family · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Lyrical Prose

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   Life After Life

   Kate Atkinson

   War and Its Aftermath · Literary Fiction · Multiple Timelines · Multigenerational Family · Historical Fiction

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   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Historical Fiction · Multigenerational Family

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   The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

   Mathias Énard

   Satire · Multiple Timelines · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Dark Comedy

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   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

   Hunter S. Thompson

   Satire · Unreliable Narrator · Satirical · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction

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   Cloud Cuckoo Land

   Anthony Doerr

   Frame Story · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Historical Fiction · Multiple Timelines

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8. 

   The Egyptologist

   Arthur Phillips

   Satire · Frame Story · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Dark Comedy

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9. 

   The Book of Speculation

   Erika Swyler

   Magical Realism · Multigenerational Family · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets

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    There Are Rivers in the Sky

    Elif Shafak

    Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Historical Fiction · Religious Identity · Multiple Timelines

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11. 

    Watchmen

    Alan Moore

    Satirical · Satire · Frame Story · Nonlinear Narrative · Dense Prose

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12. 

    Interior Chinatown

    Charles Yu

    Satire · Literary Fiction · Satirical · Dark Comedy · Cultural Identity

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13. 

    Pachinko

    Min Jin Lee

    Colonialism · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Cultural Identity · Multigenerational Family

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14. 

    Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Satire · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Unreliable Narrator · Dark Comedy

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15. 

    Perfume

    Patrick Süskind

    Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Satirical · Dark Comedy · Lyrical Prose

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16. 

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Literary Fiction · Religious Identity · Historical Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Nonlinear Narrative

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17. 

    Black Leopard, Red Wolf

    Marlon James

    Nonlinear Narrative · Frame Story · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Unreliable Narrator

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18. 

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Religious Identity · Colonialism · Frame Story

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19. 

    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner

    Unreliable Narrator · Literary Fiction · Dark Comedy · Nonlinear Narrative · Family Secrets

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    Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese

    Multigenerational Family · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Dense Prose · Family Secrets

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