Recs if you like All the King's Men...

these books won a major award, then their on-screen adaptations went on to win one, too!

(Most) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners since 1918!

Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.

These books have been turned into movies that went on to win an Oscar

Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.

(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)

A list of ‘roman á clef’s, or fictionalized versions of true stories

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."