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If you’re longing for another epic to get lost in, try one of these three books: 1.

In this list of 50 must-read long novels over 500 pages, you’ll find a variety of fiction genres and authors, with a focus on recent (2000present) books. However, these three books include similar aspects to the famed novel, such as generational stories, explorations into the value of art, beautiful descriptions of settings, and haunting mysteries. When I think back to some of my favorite doorstopper books, like The Goldfinch and Outlander, I remember the time I spent with them and those mini reading epochs in my bookish life. Told in a similar vein to The Goldfinch, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is narrated by nine-year-old Oskar Schell following the death of his father who is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre. Heavy with themes of love, loss, obsession, fate, and beauty, Tartt’s work is ultimately unique. 8 Books like The Goldfinch Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Considered an odyssey through present-day America, Theo’s tale of survival and self-invention enthralls all who read it. If you liked The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, here are some books like this: The Time Travelers Wife The Lowland The Round House The Book of Unknown Americans. Though he finds work selling antiques to the wealthy, the goldfinch painting continues to haunt him, increasingly so as he enters into the underworld of illegal art. Like the goldfinch in the painting he can't bring himself to relinquish, Theo is chained, forever yearning for the mother he lost on that terrible day in the museum.

The story follows Theo into adulthood, bouncing from home to home, from tragedies and misadventures. When his mother dies in a tragic accident that he himself miraculously survives, Theo finds himself set adrift in New York with only the stolen Dutch painting of a goldfinch to remind him of his past. The Goldfinch follows Theo Decker, the thirteen-year-old son of a devoted mother and absent father.