Books like Adam Bede
12 books with a reading profile close to Adam Bede by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed, Najam Saqib, Gordon Frederick Browne, David Case. Contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Shirley
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
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2
Great Expectations
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The story follows Pip, an orphan living in the bleak Kentish marshes with his sister and the blacksmith Joe Gargery.
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3
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In fifteenth-century Paris, the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo lives within the stone walls of Notre-Dame Cathedral under the guardianship of Archdeacon Claude Frollo.
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4
The works of Charles Dickens
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This 1877 collection compiles the narrative output of Victorian England’s most prominent novelist, spanning from early sketches to final unfinished manuscripts.
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5
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Jim Burden moves to the Nebraska frontier to live with his grandparents, where he befriends Ántonia Shimerda, the eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
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6
Assommoir
by Émile Zola
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
L’Assommoir documents the physical and moral decline of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress striving for domestic stability in the slums of Second Empire Paris.
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7
The House of the Spirits
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
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8
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, these interconnected novels follow the lives of two boys navigating the constraints of antebellum society.
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9
Susan Lenox
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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Sister Carrie
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber leaves her rural Wisconsin home for Chicago with nothing but a small satchel and a desire for material comfort.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
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12
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in early twentieth-century Maine, the narrative follows Homer Wells, a perpetual orphan raised at St.
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