Books like…

Books Like The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · about this book

Loved The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky? If its classics, male lead and neurodivergent character hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Anna Karenina, Of Human Bondage and Of Mice and Men. 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 Idiot: Classics · Male Lead · Neurodivergent Character · Disabled Protagonist · Literary Fiction

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Faith Crisis · Classics · Literary Fiction · Classism · Philosophy

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Disabled Protagonist · Faith Crisis · Classics · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator

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   Of Mice and Men

   John Steinbeck

   Disabled Protagonist · Neurodivergent Character · Classics · Literary Fiction · Classism

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   Les Misérables

   Victor Hugo

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Slow-Paced · Classism

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   Sense and Sensibility

   Jane Austen

   Classics · Satirical · Wealthy Families · Literary Fiction · Classism

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Classism · Male Lead

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   The Dispossessed

   Ursula K. Le Guin

   Classics · Philosophy · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced · Omniscient Narrator

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8. 

   A Tale of Two Cities

   Charles Dickens

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Love Triangle · Dense Prose

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9. 

   Candide

   Voltaire

   Classics · Faith Crisis · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Philosophy

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10. 

    The Seamstress

    Frances de Pontes Peebles

    Tragic · Literary Fiction · Classism · Wealthy Families · Slow-Paced

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11. 

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Philosophy · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic

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12. 

    Perfume

    Patrick Süskind

    Literary Fiction · Classics · Satirical · Dense Prose · Male Lead

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13. 

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Literary Fiction · Tragic · Slow-Paced · Male Lead · Dense Prose

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14. 

    The Stranger

    Albert Camus

    Classics · Faith Crisis · Literary Fiction · Philosophy · Male Lead

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15. 

    1984

    George Orwell

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Male Lead

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16. 

    The Other Bennet Sister

    Janice Hadlow

    Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Love Triangle · Classism · Wealthy Families

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17. 

    Gone with the Wind

    Margaret Mitchell

    Classics · Tragic · Wealthy Families · Love Triangle · Omniscient Narrator

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18. 

    Titus Groan

    Mervyn Peake

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Ensemble Cast · Slow-Paced

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    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Classism · Wealthy Families · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Slow-Paced

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20. 

    The Weight of Ink

    Rachel Kadish

    Faith Crisis · Philosophy · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose

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