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Books like One Hundred Years of Solitude

If you liked One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Love in the Time of Cholera

    Gabriel García Márquez · 1985

    Because also by Gabriel García Márquez; shares tags: classics, magical realism, colombia.

    Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a…

  2. East of Eden

    John Steinbeck · 1952

    Because shares tags: classics, family saga.

    In California's Salinas Valley, the Trasks and Hamiltons replay Cain and Abel through love, betrayal, and the hard choice to rise above the…

  3. War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · 1869

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.

  4. Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe · 1958

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…

  5. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.

  6. The Trial

    Franz Kafka · 1925

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.

  7. The Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · The d'Artagnan Romances #1

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.

  8. The Thorn Birds

    Colleen McCullough · 1977

    Because shares tag: family saga.

    Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.

  9. The Prince

    Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.

  10. The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco · 1980

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.

  11. The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

  12. The Lorax

    Dr. Seuss · 1971

    Because shares tag: classics.

    The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop.

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