Books like Frankenstein

If you liked Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde · 1890

    Because shares tags: classics, gothic, literary fiction.

    Dorian Gray retold: Basil paints, Henry talks, wish holds youth while canvas bears years.

  2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

    Because shares tags: classics, gothic, horror.

    A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.

  3. 'Salem's Lot

    Stephen King · 1975

    Because shares tags: horror, classics, gothic.

    A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.

  4. Interview with the Vampire

    Anne Rice · 1976 · The Vampire Chronicles #1

    Because shares tags: horror, gothic, classics.

    Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.

  5. Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë · 1847

    Because shares tags: classics, gothic, literary fiction.

    Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.

  6. Dracula

    Bram Stoker · 1897

    Because shares tags: classics, horror, gothic.

    Count Dracula sails for England in letters and diaries, and Van Helsing leads the hunt to stop him.

  7. 1984

    George Orwell · 1949

    Because shares tags: classics, science fiction, literary fiction.

    A long retelling of George Orwell's 1984: Winston Smith's quiet rebellion in Oceania, the Party's grip on truth and memory, and why the…

  8. Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe · 1958

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…

  9. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.

  10. The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

  11. The Karamazov Brothers

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.

  12. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

    Because shares tags: classics, horror.

    Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

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