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Looking for read-alikes for Mephisto by Klaus Mann? These 24 titles overlap in War & Military, Classics, and Literary and overall literary texture.

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Unconditional Surrender — Evelyn Waugh

Unconditional Surrender

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

A Thousand Ships A Novel — Natalie Haynes

A Thousand Ships A Novel

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Fugitive Prince — Janny Wurts

Fugitive Prince

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Soldiers Three — Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

The War in the Air — H.G. Wells

The War in the Air — H.G. Wells

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

The Hunters A Novel — James Salter

The Hunters A Novel

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Men At Arms — Evelyn Waugh

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

War and Peace 3-Volume Boxed Set; Introduction by R. F. Christian — Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace 3-Volume Boxed Set; Introduction by R. F. Christian

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) — Margaret Walker

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

Margaret Walker

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Parade’s End — Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

For Whom the Bell Tolls The Hemingway Library Edition — Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls The Hemingway Library Edition

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

CIRCE — Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

A Bell for Adano — John Hersey

A Bell for Adano

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer The Memoirs of George Sherston — Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer The Memoirs of George Sherston

Siegfried Sassoon

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

War And Peace — Leo Tolstoy

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

An Unsafe Haven — Nada A. Jarrar

An Unsafe Haven

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

Badenheim 1939 — Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

Themes: War & Military • Classics • Literary

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