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Books Like The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy · about this book

Loved The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy? If its literary fiction, india and forbidden love hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Hamnet, Atonement 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 The God of Small Things: Literary Fiction · India · Forbidden Love · Classism · Lyrical Prose

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   Hamnet

   Maggie O'Farrell

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

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   Atonement

   Ian McEwan

   Tragic · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Classism · Loss of Innocence

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   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Tragic · Classism · Literary Fiction · Forbidden Love · Multigenerational Family

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   All the Light We Cannot See

   Anthony Doerr

   Nonlinear Narrative · Tragic · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Loss of Innocence

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classism · Tragic · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Forbidden Love

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   And the Mountains Echoed

   Khaled Hosseini

   Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Multigenerational Family · Family Secrets

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   Human Acts

   Han Kang

   Nonlinear Narrative · Lyrical Prose · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Death of a Child

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8. 

   The Night Circus

   Erin Morgenstern

   Twins · Nonlinear Narrative · Lyrical Prose · Forbidden Love · Literary Fiction

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9. 

   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Literary Fiction · Classism · Tragic · Multigenerational Family · Family Secrets

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    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Tragic · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Loss of Innocence · Haunting

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11. 

    Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Nonlinear Narrative · Forbidden Love · Multigenerational Family

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12. 

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    Classism · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Forbidden Love · Child Abuse

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13. 

    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

    Anthony Marra

    Tragic · Lyrical Prose · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction · Haunting

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14. 

    Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese

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

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15. 

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

    Tragic · Lyrical Prose · Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction · Racism

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16. 

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Nonlinear Narrative · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Loss of Innocence · Haunting

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17. 

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Tragic · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Nonlinear Narrative · Haunting

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18. 

    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    Twins · Classism · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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19. 

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Literary Fiction · Forbidden Love · Tragic · Classism · Dense Prose

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    1984

    George Orwell

    Tragic · Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction · Forbidden Love · Dense Prose

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