Books Like Dune

Epic science fiction with political depth.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Dune

Frank Herbert · 1965

Moderate · 320 pp.

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12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

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1984

George Orwell · 1949

Moderate · 320 pp.

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4.3

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Challenging · 579 pp.

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4.2

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 572 pp.

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4.1

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 2007

Accessible · 649 pp.

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3.8

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013

Accessible · 580 pp.

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Atomic Habits

James Clear · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Being and Time

Martin Heidegger · 1927

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert · 2015

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott · 1994

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Blink

Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 1932

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Built to Last

Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras · 1994

Moderate · 320 pp.

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3.9

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Moderate · 509 pp.

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3.8

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1981

Accessible · 424 pp.

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4.1

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2018

Accessible · 535 pp.

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4.3

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr · 2021

Challenging · 513 pp.

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Company of One

Paul Jarvis · 2019

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Moderate · 320 pp.