Books Like The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe

10 books for fans of The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe

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   East of Eden

   by John Steinbeck

   Steinbeck retells Cain and Abel through generations of California families, exploring how the capacity for both good and evil passes through bloodlines in the Salinas Valley.

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   Steinbeck retells Cain and Abel through generations of California families, exploring how the capacity for both good and evil passes through bloodlines in the Salinas Valley.

   ★ 4.44 Goodreads (655.0K ratings)

   866 pages • 1952

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   The Covenant of Water

   by Abraham Verghese

   Spanning 1900 to 1977 in Kerala, India, three generations of one family grapple with a mysterious curse that causes skilled swimmers to drown. Verghese weaves together love, faith, and medical mystery in this sweeping epic that explores how families endure across time and tragedy.

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   Spanning 1900 to 1977 in Kerala, India, three generations of one family grapple with a mysterious curse that causes skilled swimmers to drown. Verghese weaves together love, faith, and medical mystery in this sweeping epic that explores how families endure across time and tragedy.

   ★ 4.41 Goodreads (326.1K ratings)

   715 pages • 2023

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   The Brothers K

   by David James Duncan

   The Chance family fractures over Vietnam, religion, and baseball in this sprawling American epic that follows four brothers through the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and beyond.

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   The Chance family fractures over Vietnam, religion, and baseball in this sprawling American epic that follows four brothers through the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and beyond.

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K ratings)

   645 pages • 1992

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   Cutting for Stone

   by Abraham Verghese

   ★ 4.34 Goodreads (431.3K ratings)

   560 pages • 2009

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   [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Dostoyevsky's prophetic novel follows Russian revolutionaries whose ideological extremism leads them to consider murdering their own comrades to protect their cause.

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   Dostoyevsky's prophetic novel follows Russian revolutionaries whose ideological extremism leads them to consider murdering their own comrades to protect their cause.

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K ratings)

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   Hemingway

   by Nate Cleveland

   ★ 5.00 Goodreads (2 ratings)

   546 pages • 2024

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   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

   Harry Potter • Book 5

   by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

   ★ 4.50 Goodreads (3.8M ratings)

   896 pages • 2003

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   The Idiot

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Epileptic Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss treatment to St. Petersburg, where his Christ-like innocence attracts fortune-hunters and destroys lives.

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   Epileptic Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss treatment to St. Petersburg, where his Christ-like innocence attracts fortune-hunters and destroys lives.

   ★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K ratings)

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   The Savage Detectives

   by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

   Two Mexican poets flee across the Sonoran desert after founding the visceral realist movement, launching a twenty-year odyssey through global literary underground in Bolaño's sprawling, kaleidoscopic masterpiece.

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   Two Mexican poets flee across the Sonoran desert after founding the visceral realist movement, launching a twenty-year odyssey through global literary underground in Bolaño's sprawling, kaleidoscopic masterpiece.

   ★ 4.18 Goodreads (53.6K ratings)

   577 pages • 1998

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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3

    by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    Toru Okada's search for his wife's missing cat spirals into a surreal journey through Tokyo's underground passages, strange psychic encounters, and suppressed memories of wartime atrocities. Murakami blends domestic realism with dreamlike sequences that blur the boundaries between conscious and unconscious experience.

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    Toru Okada's search for his wife's missing cat spirals into a surreal journey through Tokyo's underground passages, strange psychic encounters, and suppressed memories of wartime atrocities. Murakami blends domestic realism with dreamlike sequences that blur the boundaries between conscious and unconscious experience.

    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (317.7K ratings)

    607 pages • 1994

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