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Character-Driven books

Here are 48 books with a lot of character-driven, starting with Olive Kitteridge, The Shipping News and Middlemarch.

• Olive KitteridgeElizabeth Strout
• The Shipping NewsAnnie Proulx
• MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
• The HoursMichael Cunningham
• The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
• The Elegance of the HedgehogMuriel Barbery
• The Sense of an EndingJulian Barnes
• The Slow Regard of Silent ThingsPatrick Rothfuss
• CranfordElizabeth Gaskell
• The Bell JarSylvia Plath
• The GoldfinchDonna Tartt
• Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
• PersuasionJane Austen
• Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham
• The Catcher in the RyeJerome David Salinger
• CommonwealthAnn Patchett
• The NamesakeJhumpa Lahiri
• My Struggle Book OneKarl Ove Knausgård
• A Man in LoveKarl Ove Knausgard
• Min kamp 3Karl Ove Knausgard
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetBecky Chambers
• The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver
• The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan
• EmmaJane Austen
• Normal PeopleSally Rooney
• SpeakLaurie Halse Anderson
• Anne of Green GablesL.M. Montgomery
• The Memory Keeper's DaughterKim Edwards
• The Color PurpleAlice Walker
• Franny and ZooeyJ.D. Salinger
• Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf
• Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
• Nine StoriesJ.D. Salinger
• The Heart is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers
• Revolutionary RoadRichard Yates
• The Portrait of a LadyHenry James
• GileadMarilynne Robinson
• StonerJohn Williams
• The Story of a New NameElena Ferrante
• Cat on a Hot Tin RoofTennessee Williams
• Swann's WayMarcel Proust
• Dinner at the Homesick RestaurantAnne Tyler
• The SeaJohn Banville
• A Light in the WindowJan Karon
• The Goblin EmperorKatherine Addison
• EventideKent Haruf
• The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.Adelle Waldman
• The SportswriterRichard Ford

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