The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

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Steppenwolf

Herman Hesse

Similarity Score: 0.947

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Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Similarity Score: 0.946

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Manhattan Beach

Jennifer Egan

Similarity Score: 0.936

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Similarity Score: 0.933

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The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

Similarity Score: 0.933

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You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

Similarity Score: 0.926

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

Similarity Score: 0.925

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Herzog

Saul Bellow

Similarity Score: 0.923

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.921

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Similarity Score: 0.92

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Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Similarity Score: 0.913

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.911

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Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

Similarity Score: 0.911

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Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

Similarity Score: 0.911

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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

Similarity Score: 0.91

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Similarity Score: 0.91

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The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

Similarity Score: 0.909

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This Tender Land

William Kent Krueger

Similarity Score: 0.9

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Similarity Score: 0.899

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Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Similarity Score: 0.899

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Similarity Score: 0.898

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Dubliners

James Joyce

Similarity Score: 0.898

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

Similarity Score: 0.895

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