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Across Psychological, Classics, and Literary — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Pearl by John Steinbeck.

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Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

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Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Penguin Orange Collection) — Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Penguin Orange Collection)

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

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The Painted Veil — W Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

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Zeno’s Conscience

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Beautiful and Damned — Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Marble Faun — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

A Head Full of Ghosts A Novel — Paul Tremblay

A Head Full of Ghosts A Novel

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

Descent Into Hell — Charles Williams

Descent Into Hell

Charles Williams

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Driver’s Seat — Muriel Spark

The Driver’s Seat

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

Dark Laughter — Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Scarlet Letter — Nathanial Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Nathanial Hawthorne

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Pumpkin Eater — Penelope Mortimer

The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

Wuthering Heights — Ellis Bell

Wuthering Heights

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

What Every Woman Knows — J. M. Barrie

What Every Woman Knows — J. M. Barrie

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

One, None and a Hundred Thousand — Luigi Pirandello

One, None and a Hundred Thousand

Luigi Pirandello

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Manticore — Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

Ulysses — James Joyce

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Brothers Karamazov A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

The Fall — Albert Camus

Themes: Psychological • Classics • Literary

Fans of The Pearl by John Steinbeck will find 24 titles here, all united by Psychological, Classics, Literary. Authors represented include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jennifer Haigh, Ken Kesey, W. Somerset Maugham, and others.

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