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Victor Hugo · 1863

Genre: Classics Crime
Feels: Defiant Haunting Epic Bittersweet

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck · 1952

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The same haunting and epic , turned more unflinching and contemplative

Classics Literary Historical fiction Bittersweet Haunting Contemplative Unflinching

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Atonement

Ian McEwan · 2001

Its own thing

Prose worth underlining

Classics Historical fiction Literary Bittersweet Haunting Contemplative Lyrical

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexander Dumas · 1940

Its own thing

A love story that hurts a little

Classics Historical fiction Bittersweet Epic Romantic Contemplative

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Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell · 1992

Its own thing

The kind of love that leaves a mark

Classics Historical fiction Romance Bittersweet Epic Romantic Atmospheric

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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 1952

Its own thing

It stays with you

Classics Literary Haunting Epic Melancholic Contemplative

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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005

Its own thing

It leaves you thinking, but in literary

Literary Bittersweet Haunting Melancholic Contemplative

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