Read-alikes and related books

Books like Manhattan Transfer

What to read after Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos: 24 titles sharing themes of Classics and Literary, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Classics Literary Fiction

Top related books to Manhattan Transfer

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Manhattan Transfer.

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Themes: Classics • Literary

The Sun Also Rises (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: Classics • Literary

The Picture of Dorian Gray Gilded Pocket Edition — Oscar. Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Themes: Classics • Literary

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

Themes: Classics • Literary

Penhallow

Georgette Heyer

Themes: Classics • Literary

The Kashmir Shawl

Rosie Thomas

Themes: Classics • Literary

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Themes: Classics • Literary

Nick

Michael Farris Smith

Themes: Classics • Literary

Now, Voyager

Olive Higgins Prouty

Themes: Classics • Literary

#10

The Willow Tree — Hubert Selby, Jr.

Hubert Selby Jr.

Themes: Classics • Literary

#11

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Themes: Classics • Literary

#12

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allen Poe

Themes: Classics • Literary

#13

Spring Snow

Yukio Mishima

Themes: Classics • Literary

#14

The Jolly Corner

Henry James

Themes: Classics • Literary

#15

The Rise of David Levinsky

Abraham Cahan

Themes: Classics • Literary

#16

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

Themes: Classics • Literary

#17

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

Charles Dickens

Themes: Classics • Literary

#18

Songs of the Humpback Whale

Jodi Picoult

Themes: Classics • Literary

#19

Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

Mary W. Shelley

Themes: Classics • Literary

#20

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Themes: Classics • Literary

#21

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, Fiction, Literary, Classics — Willa Cather

WILLA. CATHER

Themes: Classics • Literary

#22

Andersen’s Fairy Tales — Hans Christian Andersen

HANS CHRISTIAN. ANDERSEN

Themes: Classics • Literary

#23

The Beautiful and Damned

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: Classics • Literary

#24

The Color of Magic A Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett

Themes: Classics • Literary

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos. Connected by Classics, Literary. Authors featured include Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Eco, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.