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Across AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Sanctuary by Edith Wharton.

AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Financier (Penguin Classics)

Theodore Dreiser

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Native Son, And, How “Bigger” was Born

Richard Wright

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Jazz

Toni Morrison

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The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All the King’s Men

Robert Penn Warren

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The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

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The Beldonald Holbein

Henry James

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A Pen Warmed-Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest

Mark Twain

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Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

Jack London

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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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The Eyes Of The World: A Novel

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Gertrude and Claudius

John Updike

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Tristessa

Jack Kerouac

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To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck

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A Mercy

Toni Morrison

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East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

John Steinbeck

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#19

Love Story

Erich Segal

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#20

If the River Was Whiskey: Stories (Contemporary American Fiction)

T.C. Boyle

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#21

The Body Artist: A Novel

Don DeLillo

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#22

Great Short Works of Jack London (Perennial Library)

Jack London

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Ormond Or The Secret Witness

Charles Brockden Brown

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Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

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This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Sanctuary by Edith Wharton. Connected by AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR). Authors featured include Theodore Dreiser, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.