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Books like Romeo and Juliet

12 books with a reading profile close to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Set against the desolate Yorkshire moors, this novel follows the volatile connection between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.
2

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, literary

In 1920s Hong Kong, Kitty Fane enters a loveless marriage with Walter, a reserved bacteriologist, to escape her demanding mother.
3

Emma

by Jane Austen

Also deep · romance, literary

Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, restless young woman living in the village of Highbury who occupies her time by orchestrating the romantic lives of her neighbors.
4

Corinne

by Germaine de Staël, Isabel Hill

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Set against the backdrop of an eighteenth-century Grand Tour, this novel centers on the intense intellectual and emotional connection between Lord Oswald Nelvil, a grieving Scottish aristocrat, and Corinne, a celebrated…
5

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary

Constance Chatterley is a young woman married to Clifford, a baronet paralyzed from the waist down in the First World War.
6

Ruy Blas

by Victor Hugo

Also thought-provoking · 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.
7

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Lily Bart is a beautiful but impoverished socialite navigating the rigid hierarchy of Gilded Age New York.
8

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, literary

Maurice Hall is a middle-class young man who goes to Cambridge, where he falls in love with Clive Durham, a fellow student.
9

Lettres portugaises

by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Published anonymously in 1669, this epistolary novel consists of five letters written by a Portuguese nun, Mariana Alcoforado, to an absent French officer named Noël Bouton de Chamilly.
10

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and thought-provoking · romance, literary

This tragedy chronicles the political and romantic alliance between Mark Antony, a Roman triumvir, and Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt.
11

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Also thought-provoking · romance, literary

In the aftermath of a successful military campaign, the Prince of Aragon and his soldiers visit the estate of Leonato in Messina.
12

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Set in the years surrounding World War I, the narrative follows Amory Blaine, a wealthy and egoistic Midwesterner, from his pampered childhood through his education at Princeton University.

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