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Books Like A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster · about this book

Loved A Room with a View by E.M. Forster? If its classics, female lead and romance hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Emma, Middlemarch and The Other Bennet Sister. 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 Room with a View: Classics · Female Lead · Romance · Love Triangle · Coming of Age

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   Emma

   Jane Austen

   Classism · Omniscient Narrator · Self-Discovery · Love Triangle · Hopeful

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   Middlemarch

   George Eliot

   Classism · Classics · Love Triangle · Omniscient Narrator · Self-Discovery

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   The Other Bennet Sister

   Janice Hadlow

   Self-Discovery · Omniscient Narrator · Hopeful · Coming of Age · Charming

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4. 

   The Age of Innocence

   Edith Wharton

   Love Triangle · Omniscient Narrator · Classics · Classism · Satire

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5. 

   The Portrait of a Lady

   Henry James

   Omniscient Narrator · Classics · Love Triangle · Classism · Self-Discovery

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   Wives and Daughters

   Elizabeth Gaskell

   Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Coming of Age · Victorian Era · Love Triangle

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7. 

   Circle of Friends

   Maeve Binchy

   Coming of Age · Love Triangle · Classism · Self-Discovery · Hopeful

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8. 

   I Capture the Castle

   Dodie Smith

   Love Triangle · Self-Discovery · Classism · Classics · Coming of Age

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9. 

   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Classism · Self-Discovery · Classics · Hopeful · Victorian Era

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10. 

    Anne of Avonlea

    L.M. Montgomery

    Self-Discovery · Classics · Coming of Age · Victorian Era · Hopeful

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11. 

    This Side of Paradise

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Self-Discovery · Coming of Age · Classism · Love Triangle · Classics

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12. 

    Sons and Lovers

    D.H. Lawrence

    Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Coming of Age · Love Triangle · Classics

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13. 

    Bleak House

    Charles Dickens

    Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Classics · Character-Driven · Satire

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14. 

    Tipping the Velvet

    Sarah Waters

    Classism · Self-Discovery · Hopeful · Coming of Age · Character-Driven

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15. 

    A Little Princess

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Classism · Victorian Era · Classics · Hopeful · Charming

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16. 

    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott

    Omniscient Narrator · Hopeful · Classics · Coming of Age · Classism

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17. 

    Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Self-Discovery · Classics · Classism · Charming · Satire

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18. 

    Of Human Bondage

    W. Somerset Maugham

    Self-Discovery · Omniscient Narrator · Coming of Age · Classics · Victorian Era

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19. 

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    John Fowles

    Love Triangle · Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Victorian Era · Classics

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20. 

    Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

    Brandon Sanderson

    Omniscient Narrator · Self-Discovery · Hopeful · Charming · Character-Driven

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