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Books like Jane Eyre

12 books with a reading profile close to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

The novels of Jane Austen [6 volumes]

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative · romance, narrative

This six-volume collection contains the complete major fiction of Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
2

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative · romance, narrative

Anne Elliot, the overlooked middle daughter of a vain baronet, lives with the regret of having broken her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier.
3

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Newland Archer, a young gentleman integrated into the rigid social hierarchy of 1870s New York, prepares for a safe marriage to the conventional May Welland.
4

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

romance, narrative

Margaret Hale, a clergyman’s daughter, is uprooted from the genteel landscapes of southern England when her father moves the family to the industrial northern town of Milton.
5

Three Comrades

by Erich Maria Remarque

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, narrative

Robert Lohkamp, Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz are three veterans of the First World War who run a car repair shop in Germany in the late 1920s, bound by their wartime experiences and poverty.
6

The Price of Salt

by Claire Morgan

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet is a nineteen-year-old stage designer working a temporary retail job at Frankenberg’s department store in Manhattan.
7

The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Therese Belivet works as a temporary shop assistant in a Manhattan department store when she meets Carol Aird, an elegant suburban mother purchasing a doll for her daughter.
8

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, narrative

Anna Karenina chronicles the collapse of a high-society marriage in nineteenth-century Russia after the protagonist begins an affair with Count Vronsky.
9

Desayuno en Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

romance, narrative

Set in wartime Manhattan, the story follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
10

Corelli’s Mandolin

by Louis de Bernières

romance, narrative

Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, the narrative follows Pelagia, the strong-willed daughter of a local physician, and Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer in the occupying Italian army.
11

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary

The narrative follows David Copperfield from his early years in Suffolk through his development into a successful novelist in Victorian London.
12

Madonna in a Fur Coat

by Sabahattin Ali

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

In the grey landscape of 1920s Berlin, Raif Efendi, a reserved Turkish clerk, encounters a self-portrait in an art gallery and becomes obsessed with the woman depicted.

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