The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Woodlanders

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Similarity Score: 0.934

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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Similarity Score: 0.929

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D.H. Lawrence

Similarity Score: 0.925

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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Similarity Score: 0.914

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The Idiot

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Similarity Score: 0.914

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My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

Similarity Score: 0.905

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The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

Similarity Score: 0.904

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Quicksand

Nella Larsen

Similarity Score: 0.9

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The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Similarity Score: 0.899

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The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Similarity Score: 0.895

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Rabbit, Run

John Updike

Similarity Score: 0.891

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The Summer Wives

Beatriz Williams

Similarity Score: 0.889

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Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Ed Tarkington

Similarity Score: 0.884

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Swann’s Way

Marcel Proust

Similarity Score: 0.884

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Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

Similarity Score: 0.881

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Othello

William Shakespeare

Similarity Score: 0.877

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Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

Similarity Score: 0.875

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You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

Similarity Score: 0.874

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The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Similarity Score: 0.874

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Similarity Score: 0.87

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Atonement

Ian McEwan

Similarity Score: 0.87

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Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Similarity Score: 0.87

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The Paper Palace

Miranda Cowley Heller

Similarity Score: 0.87

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