Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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The Pearl

John Steinbeck

Similarity Score: 0.942

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The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

Similarity Score: 0.937

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Similarity Score: 0.937

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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Similarity Score: 0.937

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Similarity Score: 0.933

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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

Similarity Score: 0.933

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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

Similarity Score: 0.933

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.924

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Similarity Score: 0.922

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Similarity Score: 0.918

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King Lear

William Shakespeare

Similarity Score: 0.917

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.916

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Slave Old Man

Patrick Chamoiseau

Similarity Score: 0.916

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The Far Field

Madhuri Vijay

Similarity Score: 0.909

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American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Similarity Score: 0.902

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Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.902

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.901

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No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.899

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Caminar

Skila Brown

Similarity Score: 0.896

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Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

Similarity Score: 0.895

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

Similarity Score: 0.895

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Similarity Score: 0.893

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Sister Snake

Amanda Lee Koe

Similarity Score: 0.893

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Similarity Score: 0.891

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