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Books like The Age of Innocence

12 books with a reading profile close to The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Three Comrades

by Erich Maria Remarque

Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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.
2

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Also inward-looking and contemplative · romance, narrative

Jane Eyre follows the life of an orphaned girl who survives a neglectful upbringing at Gateshead Hall and the harsh conditions of Lowood Institution.
3

The novels of Jane Austen [6 volumes]

by Jane Austen

Also contemplative and thought-provoking · 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.
4

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.
5

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.
6

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.
7

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.
8

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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

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.
10

Desayuno en Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Also thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in wartime Manhattan, the story follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his neighbor, Holly Golightly.
11

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain records her family’s life within a decaying English castle during the 1930s.
12

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary

The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.

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