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Books like The Reader A novel

Explore 24 books like The Reader A novel by Bernhard Schlink — a handpicked selection united by Classics, Literary, and Historical.

Top related books to The Reader A novel

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Reader A novel.

The Idiot A Novel in Four Parts

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Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Dubliners

James Joyce

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Street

Ann Petry

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Ambassadors

Henry James

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

An Unsuitable Attachment

Barbara Pym

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance

H. G. Wells

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Zorba the Greek

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Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#10

Mr. Midshipman Easy

Frederick Marryat

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#11

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#12

Steppenwolf A Novel

Hermann Hesse

Themes: Classics • Literary

#13

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

WILLA. CATHER

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#14

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#15

The Dark Horse A Virago Modern Classic

Rumer Godden

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#16

The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories — Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#18

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#19

Miss Buncle’s Book

Dorothy Emily Stevenson

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#20

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

Themes: Classics • Literary

#21

Now, Voyager

Olive Higgins Prouty

Themes: Classics • Literary

#22

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

Themes: Classics • Literary

#23

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

#24

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

If The Reader A novel by Bernhard Schlink is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Classics, Literary, Historical and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce, Ann Petry, Joseph Conrad, and others.