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Books like The Centaur

If you loved The Centaur by John Updike, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in PENNSYLVANIA_FICTION, TEACHERS_FICTION, FATHERS AND SONS_FICTION, and AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR).

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Top related books to The Centaur

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to The Centaur.

Reflection

Diane Chamberlain

Themes: PENNSYLVANIA_FICTION • TEACHERS_FICTION

Gilead: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

Themes: FATHERS AND SONS_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Death in the Family

James Agee

Themes: FATHERS AND SONS_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Mr. Ives’ Christmas

Oscar Hijuelos

Themes: FATHERS AND SONS_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Witches of Eastwick

John Updike

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Herzog (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Saul Bellow

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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

Mark Twain

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

City of God — E. L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Chase

Jessie Haas

Themes: PENNSYLVANIA_FICTION

#10

Sabbath’s Theater

Philip Roth

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#11

Madame Delphine (1881)

George W Cable

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#12

Turnip Blues

Helen Campbell

Themes: PENNSYLVANIA_FICTION

#13

The Rule of Four

Ian Caldwell

Themes: FATHERS AND SONS_FICTION

#14

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#15

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (theater tie-in)

Ken Kesey

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#16

The Woman in White Illustrated, etc. A NEW EDITION. VOL. III.

Wilkie Collins

Themes: TEACHERS_FICTION

#17

End of Story

Peter Abrahams

Themes: TEACHERS_FICTION

#18

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais

Vladimir Nabokov

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#19

Vintage Didion

Joan Didion

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#20

nexus — henry-miller

Henry Miller

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#21

Welcome to Hard Times

E.L. Doctorow

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#22

Miss Mary is Scary! (My Weird School Daze, No. 10)

Dan Gutman

Themes: TEACHERS_FICTION

#23

The War Prayer

Mark Twain

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#24

Billy Budd, Sailor An Inside Narrative

Herman Melville

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

If The Centaur by John Updike is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by PENNSYLVANIA_FICTION, TEACHERS_FICTION, FATHERS AND SONS_FICTION and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Diane Chamberlain, Marilynne Robinson, James Agee, Oscar Hijuelos, and others.