Books like Tess of the D'Urbervilles
If you liked Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Because shares tags: classic, feminism.
Clarissa Dalloway gives a London party across one June day while veteran Septimus Smith faces shell shock in the same city.
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Black Beauty
Because shares tags: classic, victorian.
Black Beauty retold in his own voice, from Birtwick Park to London cabs, through hard owners and kind hands.
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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 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 Remains of the Day
Because shares tag: 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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The Prophet
Because shares tag: classic.
A prophet delayed twelve years answers his city on love, work, sorrow and freedom before his ship sails.
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The Invention of Wings
Because shares tag: feminism.
Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
Because shares tag: classic.
The 1611 King James Bible in a 1,472-page Thomas Nelson edition: from Genesis to Revelation, law, prophets, Gospels, and letters.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Because shares tag: classic.
Eleanor joins a ghost study at Hill House, bonds fast with Theodora, and feels the house single her out by name.
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The God of Small Things
Because shares tag: tragedy.
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up in Kerala in 1969, where family rules and caste lines shape a loss that follows them into adulthood.
