The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Similarity Score: 0.968

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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

Similarity Score: 0.968

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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.958

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Similarity Score: 0.956

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The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

Similarity Score: 0.955

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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

Similarity Score: 0.954

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.949

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The Far Field

Madhuri Vijay

Similarity Score: 0.946

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American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Similarity Score: 0.944

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Similarity Score: 0.942

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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Similarity Score: 0.942

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King Lear

William Shakespeare

Similarity Score: 0.942

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Similarity Score: 0.934

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Sister Snake

Amanda Lee Koe

Similarity Score: 0.934

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Bear

Julia Phillips

Similarity Score: 0.931

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Slave Old Man

Patrick Chamoiseau

Similarity Score: 0.93

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Similarity Score: 0.93

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Similarity Score: 0.927

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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Similarity Score: 0.927

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The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Similarity Score: 0.922

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Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Similarity Score: 0.921

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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Similarity Score: 0.921

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

Similarity Score: 0.921

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Similarity Score: 0.919

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