Daniel Defoe 1800
- What it is
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Surviving with everything scarce · it changes how you see things
- Genre
- Classics
- Feels
- Epic Hopeful Reflective Adventurous
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.
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It changes how you see things and survival
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It changes how you see things and epic
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It changes how you see things · it hurts, and then it heals
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Survival and epic
The Old Man and the Sea
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A reader shelved it with yours in Survival against the wild
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Only it changes how you see things
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You'll want to talk it over with someone, but in literary fiction
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It makes you think, without a lecture, but in literary fiction
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It changes how you see things, but in literary fiction
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You'll want to talk it over with someone, but in literary fiction
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It changes how you see things, but in literary fiction
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Only survival
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A reader shelved it with yours in Survival against the wild
The revenant
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Grouped with yours in Survival against the wild
Martian
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Readers put them together in Books about being alone and surviving it
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
Like yours: survival · fierce and defiant
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Only epic
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas 1940
Just as epic and hopeful, but more morally grey and defiant
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It makes you laugh, but in literary fiction
Gone With the Wind
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Love hurts sometimes · a big story that sweeps you along
Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
Love in the middle of danger · a world to get lost in
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard 2000
A world to get lost in · in search of a lost world or a treasure
Shogun
James Clavell 1975
You won't want to come back · a big story that sweeps you along
Die Drei Musketiere
Alexandre Dumas 1973
Love and laughs in equal parts · love in the middle of danger
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 1958
A big story that sweeps you along · melancholic and unhurried
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
News of the World ARE
Paulette Jiles 2016
Tender and sad at once, but in historical fiction
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
Sarum
Edward Rutherfurd 1987
You won't want to come back, but in historical fiction
Gates of fire
Steven Pressfield 1998
It leaves you shaken · a big story that sweeps you along
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
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A world to get lost in · full of big ideas
Atalanta
Jennifer Saint 2023
Just as epic and adventurous, but more wondrous and melancholic
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee 2017
It makes you cry, in a good way, but in historical fiction
Ssea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh 2005
A world to get lost in · strangers who become a family
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart 1974
A world to get lost in · a myth or a classic told anew
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It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
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Tender and sad at once, but in literary fiction
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead 2021
Just as reflective and adventurous, but in historical fiction
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Grouped with yours in Books about being alone and surviving it
North and south
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It leaves you with a warm feeling · love in the middle of danger
True Grit
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Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
Nautical Chart
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It messes with your head, but in a mystery
Anatomy of a Murder
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No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022
As reflective as yours, only more bittersweet and defiant
The Paris Bookseller
Kerri Maher 2022
Love hurts sometimes, but in historical fiction
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan 2003
Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
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