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Books Like A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen · about this book

Loved A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen? If its classics, stage play and marriage in trouble hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Portrait of a Lady, The Awakening and Middlemarch. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside A Doll's House: Classics · Stage Play · Marriage in Trouble · Female Lead · Feminism

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   The Portrait of a Lady

   Henry James

   Freedom vs Control · Marriage in Trouble · Feminism · Victorian Era · Classics

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   The Awakening

   Kate Chopin

   Marriage in Trouble · Freedom vs Control · Feminism · Self-Discovery · Classics

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   Middlemarch

   George Eliot

   Marriage in Trouble · Blackmail · Feminism · Victorian Era · Classics

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   Antigone

   Sophocles

   Stage Play · Freedom vs Control · Dialogue-Heavy · Classics · Feminism

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   Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

   Tennessee Williams

   Stage Play · Marriage in Trouble · Dialogue-Heavy · Classics · Tragic

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   An Ideal Husband

   Oscar Wilde

   Stage Play · Blackmail · Dialogue-Heavy · Victorian Era · Marriage in Trouble

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7. 

   The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

   Charlotte Perkins Gilman

   Freedom vs Control · Feminism · Marriage in Trouble · Victorian Era · Classics

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8. 

   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

   Edward Albee

   Stage Play · Dialogue-Heavy · Marriage in Trouble · Character-Driven · Tragic

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9. 

   Villette

   Charlotte Bronte

   Feminism · Self-Discovery · Victorian Era · Character-Driven · Classics

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    Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Stage Play · Dialogue-Heavy · Self-Discovery · Classics · Feminism

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11. 

    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Anne Bronte

    Marriage in Trouble · Feminism · Classics · Victorian Era · Character-Driven

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12. 

    Death of a Salesman

    Arthur Miller

    Stage Play · Dialogue-Heavy · Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Character-Driven

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13. 

    Revolutionary Road

    Richard Yates

    Marriage in Trouble · Freedom vs Control · Dialogue-Heavy · Character-Driven · Classics

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14. 

    A Raisin in the Sun

    Lorraine Hansberry

    Stage Play · Dialogue-Heavy · Tragic · Classics · Character-Driven

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15. 

    Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare

    Stage Play · Dialogue-Heavy · Freedom vs Control · Classics · Tragic

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16. 

    Loving Frank

    Nancy Horan

    Marriage in Trouble · Feminism · Self-Discovery · Tragic · Character-Driven

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17. 

    The Hours

    Michael Cunningham

    Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Feminism · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven

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18. 

    The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton

    Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Character-Driven · Tragic · Victorian Era

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19. 

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys

    Marriage in Trouble · Feminism · Classics · Tragic · Victorian Era

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20. 

    Bleak House

    Charles Dickens

    Blackmail · Classics · Victorian Era · Tragic · Character-Driven

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