Books like Lady Susan
12 books with a reading profile close to Lady Susan by Jane Austen. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Watsons
by Jane Austen, L. Oulton
romance, literary
Emma Watson returns to her father’s modest home after being raised by a wealthy aunt who has unexpectedly disinherited her.
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2
Paul and Virginia
romance, literary
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre narrates the lives of two children raised according to the laws of nature on the remote island of Mauritius.
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3
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
romance, literary
Catherine Morland, a sheltered seventeen-year-old with a vivid imagination fueled by Gothic novels, travels to Bath under the chaperonage of the Allen family.
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4
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
romance, literary
Set twenty years after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice, this novel follows the plainest Bennet sister after the death of her mother.
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5
The Professor
romance, literary
William Crimsworth rejects a future in the church and an inheritance from his aristocratic uncles to seek financial independence as a teacher in Brussels.
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6
La dame aux camélias
romance, literary
Set in mid-19th-century Paris, this novel recounts the tragic affair between Armand Duval, a young bourgeois lawyer, and Marguerite Gautier, a high-class courtesan known for her constant companion camellias.
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7
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
romance, literary
Agnes Grey follows the daughter of an impoverished clergyman who seeks financial independence by working as a governess for landed families.
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8
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
romance, literary
Constance Chatterley is a young woman married to Clifford, a baronet paralyzed from the waist down in the First World War.
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9
Much Ado About Nothing
romance, literary
In the aftermath of a successful military campaign, the Prince of Aragon and his soldiers visit the estate of Leonato in Messina.
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10
The Painted Veil
romance, literary
In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
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11
A Farewell to Arms
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.
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12
Ruy Blas
by Victor Hugo
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.
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