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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorThe Last of the Just
Andre Schwarz-Bart · 390 pages
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 548 pages
The Wife
Sigrid Undset · 423 pages
Two Solitudes
Hugh MacLennan · 370 pages
In his vivid portrayals of human drama in prewar Quebec, Hugh MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that "love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other."
The Viceroys
Federico De Roberto · 632 pages
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street
Naguib Mahfouz · 1,336 pages
Contains: [بين القصرين](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599742W) [قصر الشوق](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599738W) [السكرية](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599727W)
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough · 573 pages
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald · 510 pages
Giant
Edna Ferber, Stuart M. Rosen · 416 pages
Saga of a woman who leaves her home in Virginia to live with her new husband in Texas at the time of the great petroleum discoveries.
The Loving Spirit
Daphne du Maurier · 352 pages
***This book is a lush generational novel from the bestselling author of Rebecca. In her acclaimed debut, celebrated author Daphne du Maurier weaves a stunning tale of heartbreaking loss and undying love that knows no bounds.*** Janet, a fearless young woman of soaring strength, longs for the wildness and freedom of the sea. She feels herself pulled fast under its spell, yet she sacrifices her
The Emigrants
Vilhelm Moberg · 375 pages
In the Beauty of the Lilies
John Updike · 512 pages
The Forsyte Saga Vol 2: The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, Swan Song
John Galsworthy · 864 pages
The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
Pearl S. Buck · 878 pages
The Source
James A. Michener · 1,040 pages
"The Source" chronicles the history of the middle east from early geologic time to the twentieth century. This spellbinding narrative brings to life the story of this part of the world as only Michener can.
The Warning Voice
Cao Xueqin · 640 pages
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 602 pages
Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his masterpiece. In his journal, Journal of a Novel (often read as a companion to the novel) he notes that “this is the book I have always wanted and have worked and prayed to be able to write.” Set primarily in the Salinas Valley in the early twentieth century, the novel traces three generations of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – as they grapp
Jubilee
Margaret Walker · 432 pages
The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Toss of a Lemon
Padma Viswanathan · 619 pages
In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that his includes a prediction, albeit a weak one, that he will die in his tenth year of marriage. De
Generations of Winter
Vasily Aksyonov · 608 pages
The House of the Mosque
Kader Abdolah · 436 pages
Iran, 1969. In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. The house teems with life, played out under the watchful eyes of the storks that nest on the minarets above. But this family will experience upheaval unknown to previous generations. For in Iran, political unrest is brewing. The shah is losing his hold on power; the ayatollah incites rebellion from his ex
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth · 1,408 pages
The tale of Lata's and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through maternal appraisal. Set in post-independence India and involving the lives of four families, it is also an explanation of a whole continent faced with its first great General Election.
The Godfather
Mario Puzo · 447 pages
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is