Books like The Lincoln Highway
If you liked The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Because shares tags: historical fiction, adventure, coming of age.
A Cro-Magnon girl orphaned by disaster grows up with a Neanderthal clan, learning their medicine and customs while testing their limits.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age, literary fiction.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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The Kite Runner
Because shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction, coming of age.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Because shares tags: adventure, coming of age, historical fiction.
Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river…
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All the Light We Cannot See
Because shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction, coming of age.
Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Because also by Amor Towles; shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction.
Count Rostov lives under house arrest in the Metropol and builds family from staff.
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Voyager
Because shares tags: historical fiction, adventure.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Because shares tags: literary fiction, historical fiction.
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Namesake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
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The Kitchen House
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
Irish orphan Lavinia is raised by enslaved cooks in the kitchen house, then torn between that family and the big house.
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The God of Small Things
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up in Kerala in 1969, where family rules and caste lines shape a loss that follows them into adulthood.
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Robinson Crusoe
Because shares tags: adventure, historical fiction.
Shipwrecked near South America, Crusoe spends 28 years farming, building, praying, and facing who he becomes alone.
