Books like Middlesex
If you liked Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Demon Copperhead
Because shares tags: literary fiction, pulitzer.
Born in a Lee County trailer, Damon Fields survives foster care, football fame, and opioid addiction in Appalachia.
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The Virgin Suicides
Because also by Jeffrey Eugenides; shares tag: literary fiction.
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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White Oleander
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Thorn Birds
Because shares tag: family saga.
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
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The Paper Palace
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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The Master and Margarita
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
