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Books Like Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy · about this book

Loved Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy? If its classics, literary fiction and infidelity hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Madame Bovary, Revolutionary Road 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 Anna Karenina: Classics · Literary Fiction · Infidelity · Character-Driven · Tragic

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   Madame Bovary

   Gustave Flaubert

   Omniscient Narrator · Infidelity · Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Suicide Content

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   Revolutionary Road

   Richard Yates

   Omniscient Narrator · Infidelity · Fall From Grace · Tragic · Suicide Content

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   Middlemarch

   George Eliot

   Omniscient Narrator · Marriage in Trouble · Sprawling Epic · Classics · Wealthy Families

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   The Age of Innocence

   Edith Wharton

   Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Wealthy Families · Forbidden Love

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   The Scarlet Letter

   Nathaniel Hawthorne

   Omniscient Narrator · Infidelity · Fall From Grace · Tragic · Slow-Paced

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   The Thorn Birds

   Colleen McCullough

   Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Forbidden Love · Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced

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   The Awakening

   Kate Chopin

   Infidelity · Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Suicide Content · Forbidden Love

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   Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 2

   Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoj

   Infidelity · Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Suicide Content · Forbidden Love

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   Jude the Obscure

   Thomas Hardy

   Suicide Content · Infidelity · Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Fall From Grace

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    All the King's Men

    Robert Penn Warren

    Fall From Grace · Tragic · Slow-Paced · Classics · Character-Driven

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11. 

    Tender Is the Night

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Infidelity · Fall From Grace · Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Wealthy Families

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12. 

    Doctor Zhivago

    Boris Pasternak

    Tragic · Forbidden Love · Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced · Infidelity

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    Howards End

    E.M. Forster

    Omniscient Narrator · Wealthy Families · Slow-Paced · Classics · Character-Driven

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14. 

    Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

    Evelyn Waugh

    Tragic · Wealthy Families · Marriage in Trouble · Forbidden Love · Classics

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15. 

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Sprawling Epic · Suicide Content · Character-Driven

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    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Victor Hugo

    Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Forbidden Love · Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced

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17. 

    The Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James

    Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Character-Driven

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18. 

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys

    Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Fall From Grace · Slow-Paced · Classics

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19. 

    The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Wealthy Families · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose

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    Bleak House

    Charles Dickens

    Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Wealthy Families · Slow-Paced · Classics

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