Books like The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
12 books with a reading profile close to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
-
1
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
-
2
The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The story begins in 1974 at a summer arts camp where six teenagers—Jules, Ash, Goodman, Ethan, Jonah, and Cathy—form a tight-knit circle based on their shared creative ambitions.
-
3
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Quoyle, a socially inept and physically ungainly third-rate newspaperman, retreats to his ancestral home in Newfoundland following the death of his unfaithful wife and the discovery of his parents’ double suicide.
-
4
The House of the Spirits
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
-
5
Ethan Frome
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the frozen landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in a hollow marriage to his sickly, suspicious wife, Zeena.
-
6
Galatea
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In this short story, a statue carved from ivory is granted life by a goddess, becoming the wife of her creator, Pygmalion.
-
7
Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Silas Marner is a reclusive weaver living in the village of Raveloe after being falsely accused of theft by his religious community in Lantern Yard.
-
8
The History of Love
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.
-
9
Still Life
by Sarah Winman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In 1944, British soldier Ulysses Temper meets art historian Evelyn Skinner in a ruined Tuscan cellar.
-
10
Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
-
11
The Winter of Our Discontent
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
-
12
Shirley
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, the narrative centers on the industrial unrest caused by the Orders in Council and the introduction of textile machinery.
Get picks matched to your own reading on papr.
Get papr
