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Books like Finnegans Wake

24 titles for readers of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, selected for shared themes: Literary Criticism, Classics, and Literary.

Top related books to Finnegans Wake

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Finnegans Wake — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Best of Children’s Classics (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) — L Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

The Iliad

Homer

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

March 1917 The Red Wheel

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

Far Away and Long Ago

William Henry Hudson

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

Siegfried’s Murder

Anonymus

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

The Origins of Science Fiction

Michael Newton

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

Selected Journalism 1850-1870

Charles Dickens

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

Othello

William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#10

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Themes: Classics • Literary

#11

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#12

Sagas of Warrior-poets

Diana Whaley

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#13

March 1917 The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#14

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Themes: Classics • Literary

#15

The Satyricon

Petronius Arbiter

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#16

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

Tobias Smollett

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#17

Bunyan

James Anthony Froude

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#18

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#19

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories: New Translation Newly Translated and Annotated – Also Included After the Ball, Master and Man, The Prisoner of the Caucasus

Leo Tolstoy

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#20

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#21

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#22

Lark Rise to Candleford

Flora Thompson

Themes: Classics • Literary

#23

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

#24

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Literary Criticism, Classics, Literary — the same threads that run through Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Among the authors featured: L. Frank Baum, Homer, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, William Shakespeare, and others.