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Books Like Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens · about this book

Loved Great Expectations by Charles Dickens? If its classics, bildungsroman and coming of age hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Jane Eyre, Of Human Bondage and The Outsiders. 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 Great Expectations: Classics · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · First Person Narrator · Victorian Era

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   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Bildungsroman · Victorian Era · Classics · Classism · Working-Class Protagonist

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Bildungsroman · Classics · Coming of Age · London · Victorian Era

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Classism · Working-Class Protagonist

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Rags to Riches · Classics · Classism · Secret Past · Bittersweet

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   Memoirs of a Geisha

   Arthur Golden

   Rags to Riches · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classism · First Person Narrator

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6. 

   To Kill a Mockingbird

   Harper Lee

   Bildungsroman · Classics · Coming of Age · Classism · First Person Narrator

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   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · First Person Narrator · Self-Discovery

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8. 

   Ham On Rye

   Charles Bukowski

   Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Working-Class Protagonist · Classics · Classism

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   Taran Wanderer

   Lloyd Alexander

   Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Male Lead

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10. 

    Assassin's Apprentice

    Robin Hobb

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · First Person Narrator · Bittersweet

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11. 

    Demon Copperhead

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classism · Working-Class Protagonist · First Person Narrator

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12. 

    Wolf Hall

    Hilary Mantel

    Rags to Riches · Working-Class Protagonist · London · Classism · Literary Fiction

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13. 

    Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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14. 

    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Bittersweet · Classism

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15. 

    Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo

    Classics · Classism · Working-Class Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Redemption Arc

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16. 

    Gather

    Kenneth M. Cadow

    Coming of Age · Working-Class Protagonist · Self-Discovery · Bittersweet · Male Lead

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17. 

    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    Classism · Working-Class Protagonist · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet

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18. 

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Bildungsroman · Classics · Coming of Age · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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19. 

    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    Coming of Age · Classism · First Person Narrator · Classics · Redemption Arc

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20. 

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Classism · Literary Fiction · Male Lead

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