Books like Great Expectations
12 books with a reading profile close to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Adam Bede
by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · 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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2
David Copperfield
Also deep · narrative, literary
The narrative follows David Copperfield from his early years in Suffolk through his development into a successful novelist in Victorian London.
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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 deep and contemplative · 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
Assommoir
by Émile Zola
Also deep and contemplative · 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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6
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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7
Sister Carrie
Also deep and 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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8
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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9
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
Maggie Tulliver grows up at Dorlcote Mill, torn between her intellectual curiosity and the rigid expectations of her provincial Victorian community.
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10
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
narrative, literary
Joe Kavalier, a magician and escape artist, flees Nazi-occupied Prague and arrives in New York City to live with his cousin, Sammy Clay.
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11
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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12
An American Tragedy
Also deep and contemplative · narrative, literary
Clyde Griffiths grows up in a poor, religious household but develops a fixation on the lifestyles of the American upper class.
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