Books like Wuthering Heights

If you liked Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, romance.

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

  2. Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen · 1814

    Because shares tags: classics, romance, literary fiction.

    Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

  3. Madame Bovary

    Gustave Flaubert · 1857

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, tragedy.

    Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary for romance, then seeks lovers and luxury until debts ruin them both.

  4. A Farewell to Arms

    Ernest Hemingway · 1929

    Because shares tags: classics, romance, tragedy.

    Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.

  5. The Sun Also Rises

    Ernest Hemingway · 1926

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, romance.

    Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.

  6. Love in the Time of Cholera

    Gabriel García Márquez · 1985

    Because shares tags: classics, romance, literary fiction.

    Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a…

  7. Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier · 1938

    Because shares tags: gothic, classics, romance.

    A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.

  8. 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.

  9. Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare · 1597

    Because shares tags: classics, tragedy, romance.

    Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet retold: Verona feud, balcony, Friar's plan, and why the last minutes collapse.

  10. Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë · 1847

    Because shares tags: classics, romance, gothic.

    Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retold: Lowood, Thornfield, the attic secret, and Jane's refusal to shrink.

  11. Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley · 1818

    Because shares tags: classics, gothic, literary fiction.

    Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.

  12. The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, tragedy.

    The Great Gatsby through Nick Carraway: Gatsby's parties, the green light, Daisy and Tom, and why Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ends as a…

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