Books like Rebecca
12 books with a reading profile close to Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
Lady Susan
by Jane Austen
romance, literary
Lady Susan Vernon is a widow who uses manipulation and social maneuvering to secure her financial future.
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3
La dame aux camélias
Also inward-looking · 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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4
Paul and Virginia
Also inward-looking · 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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5
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Also inward-looking · 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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6
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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7
Geisterseher
mystery, literary
The novel follows a German Prince living in Venice who becomes entangled in a conspiracy orchestrated by a mysterious, masked Armenian.
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8
Corelli’s Mandolin
romance, literary
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.
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9
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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10
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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11
The Painted Veil
Also inward-looking · 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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12
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
Also inward-looking · 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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