George Orwell 1997
- What it is
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Nobody is entirely good · full of big ideas
- Genre
- Classics Literary Philosophy
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Animal Farm
Coming from Animal Farm? Start with The Outsider, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Convenience Store Woman. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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It stirs you up inside · pitch-black comedy
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
Stone Blind
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Tender and sad at once · fierce and defiant
The quiet American
Graham Greene 1955
Nobody is entirely good · it changes how you see things
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut 1969
Nobody is entirely good · war lived from the inside
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith 1973
Nobody is entirely good · it messes with your head
Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Traver 1958
No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick 2007
No clean hands here · nothing is quite what it seems
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie 2013
You end up rooting for the wrong people, but in science fiction
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin 2020
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll want to talk it over with someone
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Only morally grey
Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes 2019
A big story that sweeps you along · fierce and defiant
Atalanta
Jennifer Saint 2023
Just as melancholic and defiant, but more wondrous and epic
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint 2021
You won't want to come back · love hurts sometimes
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 1777
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious 1900
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell 1978
It'll scare you · a society that controls everything
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess 1972
No clean hands here · it tells it with no filter
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
It stays with you · a trial at the heart of the story
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas 1940
Just as morally grey and defiant, but more epic and hopeful
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton 1905
No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North 2014
Full of big ideas, but in science fiction
Defending Jacob
William Landay 2012
It leaves you shaken · it ties your stomach in a knot
Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller 2003
It ties your stomach in a knot · pitch-black comedy
The secret history
Donna Tartt 1992
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
Munich
Robert Harris 2019
No clean hands here, but in historical fiction
A Time to Kill
John Grisham 1989
No clean hands here, but in a thriller
5 books · Alike in just one
Only wry
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata 2018
A reader shelved it with yours in Novels you finish in one sitting
The Vampire Tapestry
Suzy McKee Charnas 1980
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
The Every
Dave Eggers 2021
Full of big ideas · it messes with your head
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder 2021
It gets under your skin · properly strange
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