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If you loved Ulysses

Books like Ulysses

If you loved Ulysses by James Joyce, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it. Ulysses is recommended on Bookspine by Debbie Millman and Neil Strauss.

No. 1

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce, Seamus Deane

No. 2

The Voice That Is Great Within Us

Hayden Carruth

No. 3

Dubliners

James Joyce, Jeri Johnson

No. 4

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

No. 5

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No. 6

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

No. 7

1984

George Orwell

No. 8

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

No. 9

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

No. 10

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

No. 11

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No. 12

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

No. 13

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

No. 14

The Odyssey

Homer, Robert Fagles, E.V. Rieu, Frédéric Mugler, Bernard Knox

No. 15

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville, Andrew Delbanco, Tom Quirk

No. 16

The Stranger

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

No. 17

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

No. 18

The Trial

Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir, Willa Muir, Max Brod

No. 19

The Iliad

Homer, Robert Fagles, Frédéric Mugler, Bernard Knox

No. 20

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

No. 21

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

No. 22

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine

No. 23

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude

No. 24

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Roberto González Echevarría, John Rutherford