Hilary Mantel 2009
- What it is
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Nobody is entirely good · it changes how you see things
- Genre
- Historical fiction Classics
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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Nobody is entirely good · sad, and in no hurry
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Only atmospheric
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad 1985
No clean hands here · it tells it with no filter
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith 1973
A reader shelved it with yours in Morally grey main characters you root for anyway
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941
Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson 1962
Nobody is entirely good · it gets under your skin
Saturday
Ian McEwan 2004
You end up rooting for the wrong people, but in literary fiction
The secret history
Donna Tartt 1992
Readers put them together in Morally grey main characters you root for anyway
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it stays with you
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver 2003
Nobody is entirely good, but in literary fiction
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 1777
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood 2005
No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton 1905
No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
Munich
Robert Harris 2019
No clean hands here · a mystery you want to solve
Fingersmith Msr
Sarah Waters 2002
Nobody is entirely good · it's hiding a secret
Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Traver 1958
No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
Shipping News
Annie Proulx 1993
It makes you laugh, but in literary fiction
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré 1964
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
8 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco 2003
Grouped with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
No clean hands here · a farewell that moves you
Possession
A. S. Byatt 1890
It changes how you see things · a love story that makes you laugh
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré 1987
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you need to know how it ends
Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker 1988
You'll want to talk it over with someone, but in literary fiction
Nautical Chart
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2000
It changes how you see things · in search of a lost world or a treasure
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the leopard
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Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
The age of innocence
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Love hurts sometimes · love and laughs in equal parts
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The summer book
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East of Eden
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