Books like David Copperfield
If you liked David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Oliver Twist
Because also by Charles Dickens; shares tags: classics, orphans, london.
An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, family.
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…
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Anne of Green Gables
Because shares tags: classics, orphans, coming of age.
L. M. Montgomery brings talkative Anne Shirley to Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, where mistakes, school rivalries, and fierce…
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Little Women
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, family.
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
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Great Expectations
Because also by Charles Dickens; shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
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The Pearl
Because shares tags: classics, family.
Off La Paz, poor diver Kino finds a great pearl for his baby son Coyotito, but cheating dealers and greed force a flight ending in loss.
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The Good Earth
Because shares tags: classics, family.
Wang Lung, a poor farmer in 1920s China, rises with his wife O-lan through famine and wealth, holding to land above all else.
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Twelve-year-old Margaret navigates puberty in New Jersey while trying to choose a religion on her own.
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Are You My Mother?
Because shares tags: family, classics.
A newborn bird falls from the nest and asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, a cow, a plane and a giant Snort if any will be his mother.
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The Bluest Eye
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Pecola prays for blue eyes while her parents repeat the racism that broke them, and the town looks away.
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Sophie's World
Because shares tags: coming of age, classics.
Sophie gets philosophy lessons by mail, then finds she is fiction in a father birthday book for Hilde.
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Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Senior year brings college letters, distance from Peter, and a dad wedding Lara Jean helps hold together.
