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What to read after Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: 24 titles sharing themes of CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR), chosen for mood and literary overlap.

CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle (Everyman’s Library) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle (Everyman’s Library)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Miller of Angibault (The World’s Classics) — George Sand

The Miller of Angibault (The World’s Classics)

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Deputy of Arcis the Deputy of Arcis — Honore De Balzac

The Deputy of Arcis the Deputy of Arcis — Honore De Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Baltasar and Blimunda (English and Portuguese Edition) — Jose Saramago

Baltasar and Blimunda (English and Portuguese Edition) — Jose Saramago

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories (The World’s Classics) — Émile Zola

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories (The World’s Classics)

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Decameron (Penguin Classics) — Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron (Penguin Classics)

Giovanni Boccaccio

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Laughable Loves: Revised Edition — Milan Kundera

Laughable Loves: Revised Edition

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Kafka, Franz ( Author ) ON Jan-25-2007, Paperback — Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Kafka, Franz ( Author ) ON Jan-25-2007, Paperback

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke — Rainer Maria Rilke

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

L’Assommoir — Emile Zola

L’Assommoir — Emile Zola

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Lucien Leuwen (Penguin Classics) — Stendhal

Lucien Leuwen (Penguin Classics)

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets — Georges Simenon

Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets

Georges Simenon

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

War and Peace — graf Leo Tolstoy

graf Leo Tolstoy

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Gambler (Hesperus Classics Series) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gambler (Hesperus Classics Series)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Foucault’s Pendulum — Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Gongora: Soledades (Spanish Texts) — Luis de Gongora

Gongora: Soledades (Spanish Texts)

Luis de Gongora

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Princesse de Cleves — Madame de Lafayette

The Princesse de Cleves

Madame de Lafayette

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Story of a Nobody (100 Pages) — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Story of a Nobody (100 Pages)

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Joke — Milan Kundera

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Taras Bulba A Tale of the Cossacks — Nicolai V. Gogol

Taras Bulba A Tale of the Cossacks

Nicolai V. Gogol

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory — Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory

Dante Alighieri

Themes: CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Connected by CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR). Authors featured include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, José Saramago, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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