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Books Like The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka · about this book

Loved The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka? If its classics, novella and male lead hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm and Ham On Rye. 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 Metamorphosis: Classics · Novella · Male Lead · Belonging · Literary Fiction

1. 

   Of Mice and Men

   John Steinbeck

   Novella · Tragic · Bleak · Classics · Working-Class Protagonist

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   Animal Farm

   George Orwell

   Novella · Classics · Class Struggle · Sparse Prose · Bleak

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3. 

   Ham On Rye

   Charles Bukowski

   Working-Class Protagonist · Father and Son · Toxic Family Dynamics · Sparse Prose · Literary Fiction

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4. 

   Perfume

   Patrick Süskind

   Neglect · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Satirical · Classics

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5. 

   Roadside Picnic

   Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

   Sparse Prose · Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Bleak · Eerie

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6. 

   Candide

   Voltaire

   Absurdist Humor · Classics · Philosophy · Dark Comedy · Novella

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7. 

   As I Lay Dying

   William Faulkner

   Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Bleak · Toxic Family Dynamics · Short Chapters

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8. 

   Fight Club

   Chuck Palahniuk

   Satire · Dark Comedy · Sparse Prose · Short Chapters · Classics

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9. 

   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Tragic · Classics · Toxic Family Dynamics · Emotional Abuse · Bleak

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10. 

    Tender Is the Flesh

    Agustina Bazterrica

    Bleak · Body Horror · Sparse Prose · Satire · Haunting

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11. 

    A Short Stay in Hell

    Steven L. Peck

    Novella · Bleak · Philosophy · Sparse Prose · Haunting

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12. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Tragic · Classics · Belonging · Haunting · Bleak

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13. 

    Interior Chinatown

    Charles Yu

    Belonging · Literary Fiction · Father and Son · Satire · Absurdist Humor

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14. 

    The Stranger

    Albert Camus

    Classics · Novella · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Sparse Prose

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15. 

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    Class Struggle · Working-Class Protagonist · Classics · Tragic · Sparse Prose

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16. 

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    Iain Reid

    Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Short Chapters · Philosophy

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17. 

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    Bleak · Literary Fiction · Father and Son · Haunting · Sparse Prose

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18. 

    Munmun

    Jesse Andrews

    Working-Class Protagonist · Class Struggle · Absurdist Humor · Dark Comedy · Satire

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19. 

    The Time Machine

    H. G. Wells

    Novella · Class Struggle · Classics · Bleak · Philosophy

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20. 

    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    Oyinkan Braithwaite

    Sparse Prose · Dark Comedy · Toxic Family Dynamics · Satirical · Short Chapters

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