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Explore 24 books like Les Miserables by Victor Hugo — a handpicked selection united by Cultural Heritage, Classics, Literary, and Historical.

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Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

The Known World LP — Edward P. Jones

The Known World LP

Edward P. Jones

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Spring Snow — Yukio Mishima

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Laughing Boy — Oliver La Farge

Oliver La Farge

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Stories from the Harlem Renaissance — Zora Neale Hurston

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

The Way of All Flesh — Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love Stories — Kathleen Collins

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love Stories

Kathleen Collins

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

The Color Purple A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel — Alice Walker

The Color Purple A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Uncle Tom’s Children Novellas — Richard Wright

Uncle Tom’s Children Novellas

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man — James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

I Know This Much Is True — Wally Lamb

I Know This Much Is True

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Near the Hope — Jennifer Davis Carey

Jennifer Davis Carey

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Zorba the Greek — Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

How Green Was My Valley — Richard Llewellyn

How Green Was My Valley

Richard Llewellyn

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Escape — James Clavell

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Romola — George Eliot

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Orlando — Virginia Woolf

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Collins Classics – Passing — Nella Larsen

Collins Classics – Passing

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

Roads of Destiny — O. Henry

Roads of Destiny

Themes: Cultural Heritage • Classics • Literary

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Cultural Heritage, Classics, Literary — the same threads that run through Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Among the authors featured: Victor Hugo, Edward P. Jones, Yukio Mishima, Oliver La Farge, and others.

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