Books like David Copperfield
12 books with a reading profile close to David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Great Expectations
Also deep · 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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2
The House of the Spirits
Also inward-looking · 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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3
Adam Bede
by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed
narrative, literary
Set in the rural community of Hayslope at the end of the eighteenth century, the narrative follows the upright carpenter Adam Bede and his unrequited love for the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorrel.
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4
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
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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5
Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
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6
Shirley
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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7
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Also inward-looking · 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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8
The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
The story begins in 1974 at a summer arts camp where six teenagers—Jules, Ash, Goodman, Ethan, Jonah, and Cathy—form a tight-knit circle based on their shared creative ambitions.
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Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Silas Marner is a reclusive weaver living in the village of Raveloe after being falsely accused of theft by his religious community in Lantern Yard.
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10
Hag-Seed
narrative, literary
Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
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11
Sister Carrie
Also deep · 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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12
The Marriage Portrait
narrative, literary
In sixteenth-century Florence, Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici is forced to marry Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, following the sudden death of her older sister.
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