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Looking for read-alikes for Summer by Edith Wharton? These 24 titles overlap in AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) and overall literary texture.

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Typee (The World’s Classics) — Herman Melville

Typee (The World’s Classics)

Herman Melville

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Tristessa — Jack Kerouac

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women — Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Jungle — Upton Sinclair

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Daisy Miller and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) — Henry James

Daisy Miller and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Portable Hawthorne: Revised and Expanded Edition (Viking Portable Library) — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Portable Hawthorne: Revised and Expanded Edition (Viking Portable Library)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Up Above the World — Paul Bowles

Up Above the World

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Bellarosa Connection — Saul Bellow

The Bellarosa Connection

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Mr. Sammler’s Planet — Saul Bellow

Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Franny and Zooey — J. D. Salinger

Franny and Zooey

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

In the Cage and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) — Henry James

In the Cage and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal — John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Battle Ground — Ellen Glasgow

The Battle Ground

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Martin Eden — Jack London

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Precaution — James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

On the Road — Jack Kerouac

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Beautiful and Damned — Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Mercy — Toni Morrison

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

God’s Grace (Twentieth Century Classics) — Bernard Malamud

God’s Grace (Twentieth Century Classics)

Bernard Malamud

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Edgar Allan Poe

Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

An American Dream — Norman Mailer

An American Dream

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Rise of David Levinsky — Abraham Cahan

The Rise of David Levinsky

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Go Down, Moses — William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) — the same threads that run through Summer by Edith Wharton. Among the authors featured: Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Alice Walker, Upton Sinclair, and others.

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