Books like Mrs. Dalloway
If you liked Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Remains of the Day
Because shares tags: literary fiction, classic.
Stevens, the perfect English butler, drives west in 1956 and looks back on Darlington Hall, Miss Kenton, and a life spent serving.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Because shares tags: classic, feminism.
Tess Durbeyfield seeks work and love in Wessex, but assault and harsh judgment follow her from Marlott to Stonehenge.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Because shares tags: literary fiction, classic.
John Wheelwright believes in God because of Owen Meany, the tiny friend whose foul ball killed his mother.
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Lessons in Chemistry
Because shares tags: feminism, literary fiction.
Lessons in Chemistry retold: Elizabeth Zott fired, TV cooking with science, Six-Thirty helps.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Because shares tag: feminism.
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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V for Vendetta
Because shares tag: classic.
A masked rebel stalks fascist London while lost girl Evey finds her nerve, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1988 DC graphic novel.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Because shares tag: feminism.
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Undomestic Goddess
Because shares tag: london.
A burned out London lawyer flees a career mistake and takes a housekeeper job she cannot do.
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The Thirteenth Tale
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
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The Things They Carried
Because shares tag: classic.
Alpha Company humps through Vietnam carrying rifles, letters, and guilt. O'Brien's linked 1990 collection asks what a true war story really…
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The Silkworm
Because shares tag: london.
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
