Benchmark Novels for My Own Writing

Discover top benchmark novels to inspire and elevate your writing. Explore must-read books that set the standard for storytelling, style, and creativity in literature.

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Gospel

by Wilton Barnhardt

The search is on for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. The narrative races through …
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Shark Dialogues

by Kiana Davenport

"Compares with Toni Morrison."--Glamour Beginning with the fateful meeting of a nineteenth-century Yankee sailor and the runaway daughter of a Tahitian chief, and sweeping over …
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Dune

by Frank Herbert

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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Queen of Angels

by Greg Bear

In twenty-first-century Los Angeles, three dissimilar sleuths--therapist Martin Burke, ambitious cop Mary Choy, and Richard Fettle, the killer's offbeat colleague--investigate diverse reasons why poet Emanuel …
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Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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The cunning man

by Robertson Davies

"A delight, a novel that travels 70 years of history on its own swift feet, a book of love and wisdom, loss and irony"--The Boston …
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