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Books like Corinne

12 books with a reading profile close to Corinne by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill, Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, L. E. L., Arthur Manderley, Isabel Hill, creatives commons by-sa, Necker de Saussure. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Lettres portugaises

by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Published anonymously in 1669, this epistolary novel consists of five letters written by a Portuguese nun, Mariana Alcoforado, to an absent French officer named Noël Bouton de Chamilly.
2

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Set in the years surrounding World War I, the narrative follows Amory Blaine, a wealthy and egoistic Midwesterner, from his pampered childhood through his education at Princeton University.
3

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Lily Bart is a beautiful but impoverished socialite navigating the rigid hierarchy of Gilded Age New York.
4

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
5

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Constance Chatterley is a young woman married to Clifford, a baronet paralyzed from the waist down in the First World War.
6

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.
7

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

In the aftermath of a successful military campaign, the Prince of Aragon and his soldiers visit the estate of Leonato in Messina.
8

If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Set in 1970s Harlem, the story follows nineteen-year-old Tish Rivers and her fiancé, Fonny Hunt, an aspiring sculptor.
9

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving with the Italian army during World War I, experiences the collapse of the front following the retreat from Caporetto.
10

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Set in 1930s French Indochina, the narrative centers on a fifteen-year-old French girl from a financially destitute family who begins a clandestine affair with a wealthy Chinese heir.
11

Ruy Blas

by Victor Hugo

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

In seventeenth-century Spain, Don Salluste de Bazan seeks revenge against Queen Maria de Neubourg after she exiles him for refusing to marry a lady-in-waiting.
12

Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Seventeen-year-old Cécile spends a restless summer on the French Riviera with her widowed father, Raymond, and his current mistress, Elsa.

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