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Books Like One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · about this book

Loved One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? If its magical realism, multigenerational family and ensemble cast hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities and Wuthering Heights. 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 One Hundred Years of Solitude: Magical Realism · Multigenerational Family · Ensemble Cast · Literary Fiction · Classics

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   Les Misérables

   Victor Hugo

   Revolution · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Classics · Ensemble Cast

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   A Tale of Two Cities

   Charles Dickens

   Revolution · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Classics · Dense Prose

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   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Multigenerational Family · Tragic · Haunting · Classics · Literary Fiction

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   Titus Groan

   Mervyn Peake

   Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Ensemble Cast

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Multigenerational Family · Colonialism · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic

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   The Book of Speculation

   Erika Swyler

   Magical Realism · Multigenerational Family · Family Secrets · Atmospheric · Lyrical Prose

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   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   Nonlinear Narrative · Haunting · Tragic · Lyrical Prose · War and Its Aftermath

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   Shrines of Gaiety

   Kate Atkinson

   Large Family · War and Its Aftermath · Ensemble Cast · Omniscient Narrator · Political Corruption

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   The Mirror & the Light

   Hilary Mantel

   Tragic · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Haunting · Sprawling Epic

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    Hamnet

    Maggie O'Farrell

    Lyrical Prose · Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Multigenerational Family

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    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Classics · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic

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12. 

    Malas

    Marcela Fuentes

    Magical Realism · Multigenerational Family · Small Town · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets

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    Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Multigenerational Family · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic · Family Secrets · Nonlinear Narrative

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    Tom's Crossing

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Sprawling Epic · Small Town · Haunting

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15. 

    And the Mountains Echoed

    Khaled Hosseini

    Multigenerational Family · War and Its Aftermath · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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    Human Acts

    Han Kang

    Revolution · Tragic · Nonlinear Narrative · Lyrical Prose · Haunting

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17. 

    Fall of Giants

    Ken Follett

    Revolution · Ensemble Cast · War and Its Aftermath · Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic

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18. 

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    Revolution · Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Political Corruption · Tragic

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    The Return of the King

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    Classics · War and Its Aftermath · Omniscient Narrator · Ensemble Cast · Sprawling Epic

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    The Night Circus

    Erin Morgenstern

    Lyrical Prose · Nonlinear Narrative · Atmospheric · Slow-Paced · Forbidden Love

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