Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

Similarity Score: 1.0

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.99

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.98

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Sister Snake

Amanda Lee Koe

Similarity Score: 0.968

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Similarity Score: 0.968

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Similarity Score: 0.968

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The Pearl

John Steinbeck

Similarity Score: 0.968

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The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

Similarity Score: 0.968

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The Far Field

Madhuri Vijay

Similarity Score: 0.958

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Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

Similarity Score: 0.956

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The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Similarity Score: 0.953

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Similarity Score: 0.946

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Bear

Julia Phillips

Similarity Score: 0.945

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The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Similarity Score: 0.945

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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

Similarity Score: 0.945

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Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

Similarity Score: 0.944

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Miracle at St. Anna

James McBride

Similarity Score: 0.942

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Slave Old Man

Patrick Chamoiseau

Similarity Score: 0.942

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

Similarity Score: 0.935

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American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Similarity Score: 0.935

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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Similarity Score: 0.935

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Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.935

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Similarity Score: 0.934

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