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Books like Wuthering Heights

12 books with a reading profile close to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

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.
4

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Set in the Italian city of Verona, this dramatic tragedy follows the lethal animosity between two noble houses, the Montagues and the Capulets.
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

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…
7

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.
8

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.
9

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

In the twilight of the nineteenth century, Florentino Ariza falls into a lifelong obsession with Fermina Daza, a woman who eventually rejects his youthful advances to marry Dr.
10

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.
11

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving with the Italian army during World War I, experiences the collapse of the front following the retreat from Caporetto.
12

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras

Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary

Set in 1930s French Indochina, the narrative centers on a fifteen-year-old French girl from a financially destitute family who begins a clandestine affair with a wealthy Chinese heir.

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