Books like The Phantom of the Opera
12 books with a reading profile close to The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
Endless Night
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Michael Rogers, a working-class drifter with expensive tastes, meets wealthy American heiress Ellie Goodman at a cursed plot of land known as Gipsy’s Acre.
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2
Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
Also clear-cut and escapist · narrative, mystery
Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy marry, their preparations for the annual Lady Anne’s ball at Pemberley are upended by a sudden crisis.
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3
Surviving Savannah
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
In Savannah, Georgia, history professor Everly Winthrop is tasked with curating a museum exhibit for the Pulaski, a luxury steamship that exploded and sank in 1838.
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4
Jamaica Inn
romance, mystery
After her mother’s death, Mary Yellan moves to facts the bleak Cornish moors to live with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
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5
Mariana
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Julia Beckett is a young woman who, at the age of eight, falls in love with an old house in Wiltshire called Greywethers, and years later she is able to buy it.
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The Maltese Falcon
narrative, mystery
In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade enters a labyrinth of deception after his partner is killed while tailing a man for a mysterious client, Brigid O'Shaughnessy.
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7
Crooked House
narrative, mystery
Aristide Leonides, a wealthy Greek businessman, dies from a fatal injection of eserine rather than his usual insulin.
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8
The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton
romance, narrative
On her twenty-first birthday in 1930, Nell O'Connor learns she was a foundling discovered on a ship arriving in Australia from England two decades earlier.
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9
The Moonstone
narrative, mystery
Rachel Verinder inherits a large yellow diamond known as the Moonstone on her eighteenth birthday, only for the jewel to vanish from her Yorkshire estate that same night.
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10
Neverworld Wake
Also escapist · narrative, mystery
Beatrice and four close friends from an elite boarding school reunite a year after the death of her boyfriend, Whit, who was part of their circle.
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11
Tokyo Express
narrative, mystery
In a quiet bay off the coast of Kyushu, the bodies of a government official and a young waitress are discovered.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Also clear-cut · narrative, mystery
This collection compiles every mystery featuring the eccentric private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr.
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