Books like The Magus by John Fowles

William Golding’s 1954 classic follows a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island, whose attempts to self-govern unravel into a stark exploration of leadership, morality, and the human capacity for both cooperation and violence.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Oedipa Maas, executor of Pierce Inverarity’s will, uncovers a hidden network of conspiracies, jazz clubs, and beatnik culture while navigating her own psyche.

Anne Shirley: A Teacher's Inspiration in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

In Edwardian England, Lucy Honeychurch is poised for a conventional life until a trip to Florence opens her eyes to romance, freedom, and the conflict between her future fiancé Cecil Vyse and the passionate world of her Italian companions.

Joseph Conrad’s 1900 novella follows a young English officer who, after a moment of cowardice, seeks redemption on the high seas, blending seafaring adventure with psychological depth.

A novelist leads an intensive creative‑writing course in hot Athens, guiding students through storytelling exercises while the conversations betray personal fantasies, anxieties, and regrets, gradually revealing her own journey of loss.

A harrowing tale of a lonely sociopath who kidnaps a young woman, holding her in a cellar while he persuades her to love him, narrated from both perspectives.

A love story set in a luxurious Swiss hotel, where a single woman finds herself amidst high society and romance unfolds.

From the academies of Greece, the cults of Rome, the scriptoriums of Christian monks, the minarets of Islamic sages, and the stone circles of the ancients, the mystery of magic whispers to those precious few who possess the Gift. The Order of Hermes, the legacy of the greatest wizards of Mythic Europe, listens well. The Mysteries dares Ars Magica players to delve deeper in the minds of magi than ever before by revealing a new level of intrigue and magic at work within the Order of Hermes. This new supplement for playing Hermetic magi exposes a treasure-trove of secrets from the discoverers of magic and the hidden sects within the Order. Dozens of new spells, lab activities, and Virtues bring medieval science, magic, and mysticism to life, including the marvels of alchemy, dream magic, astrology, and daemonology.

An earthquake and tidal wave launch John Dollar, teacher Charlotte, and her pupils into the sea, leaving them to wake on a beach with John paralyzed amid the wreckage of nature’s fury.

In a remote Hebridean island, Mairi brings home Thomas, a fragile orphan, igniting jealousy in her partner Sandy and reshaping their relationship over time and tragedy.

The English teacher follows Vida Avery, an island-based teacher who keeps her son and secrets close, until an unexpected marriage shatters her controlled life. As she teaches a novel about injustice, she confronts her own hidden truths.

An English tourist impersonates a new king in a fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania, leading to political intrigue and a thrilling adventure set in 1894.