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If you loved Main Street

Books like Main Street

If you loved Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

No. 2

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

No. 3

Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)

Erskine Caldwell, Lewis Nordan

No. 4

Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

Edith Wharton, Mary Gordon

No. 5

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

No. 6

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser, Richard R. Lingeman

No. 7

The Wings of the Dove

Henry James, Amy Bloom, Pierre A. Walker

No. 8

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton, Nina Bawden

No. 9

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

No. 10

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy, Alexander Theroux

No. 11

Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)

D.H. Lawrence

No. 12

Howards End

E.M. Forster

No. 13

From Here to Eternity

James Jones

No. 14

A Room with a View

E.M. Forster

No. 15

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James, Patricia Crick

No. 16

The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction

Stephen Crane, George Stade, Richard Fusco

No. 17

Middlemarch

George Eliot, Michel Faber

No. 18

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West, Alfred Kazin

No. 19

A Death in the Family

James Agee

No. 20

Adam Bede

George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

No. 21

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

No. 22

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

No. 23

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

No. 24

Bleak House

Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury, Hablot Knight Browne