Books like Oliver Twist
12 books with a reading profile close to Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Clear-cut and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary
narrative, literary
This volume provides the complete shooting script for Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
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2
The Old Curiosity Shop
narrative, literary
Nell Trent lives in a London warehouse filled with dusty antiquities, cared for by her grandfather.
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3
Susan Lenox
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise follows an illegitimate girl born into a rigid Midwestern environment.
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4
Evangeline
narrative, literary
Set in 1755 during the Expulsion of the Acadians, this epic poem follows the separation of two lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse.
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5
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde
narrative, literary
Sir Robert Chiltern is a rising political star in London whose reputation rests on a foundation of absolute integrity.
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6
Empire Falls
narrative, literary
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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7
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, literary
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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8
To Have and Have Not
narrative, literary
Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain in Key West, struggles to support his family during the Great Depression.
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9
Iki Sehrin Hikayesi
narrative, literary
Set against the violent backdrop of the French Revolution, this narrative follows Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat seeking to escape his family heritage, and Sydney Carton, a cynical English lawyer.
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10
The Red Badge of Courage
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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11
Mademoiselle Fifi
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set during the Prussian occupation of France in the 1870s, this collection centers on the titular novella about a cruel Prussian officer nicknamed Mademoiselle Fifi for his effeminate mannerisms.
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12
Home Fire
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Isma Pasha raises her younger twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, in London after their jihadist father dies in transit to Guantanamo Bay.
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