Books Like Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte · about this book

Loved Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte? If its classics, female lead and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Great Expectations, Memoirs of a Geisha and Wuthering Heights. 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 Jane Eyre: Classics · Female Lead · First Person Narrator · Gothic Fiction · Romance

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

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

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Bildungsroman · Age Gap Romance · Classism · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Gothic Fiction · Classics · Classism · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric

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Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

Bildungsroman · Classics · Victorian Era · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction

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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

Bildungsroman · Classics · Character-Driven · Feminism · Classism

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The Hoarder
Jess Kidd

Nanny or Caregiver · Gothic Fiction · Family Secrets · Character-Driven · Secret Past

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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

Bildungsroman · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven · Family Secrets · First Person Narrator

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The Bookbinder
Pip Williams

Feminism · Classism · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Classics · Classism · Secret Past · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Classics · Age Gap Romance · Classism · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Bildungsroman · Classics · Classism · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton

Bildungsroman · Classics · Classism · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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A Dangerous Collaboration
Deanna Raybourn

Victorian Era · Feminism · First Person Narrator · Family Secrets · Gothic Fiction

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Bringing Down the Duke
Evie Dunmore

Victorian Era · Classism · Feminism · Working-Class Protagonist · Romance

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The Catcher in the Rye
Jerome David Salinger

Bildungsroman · Classics · Boarding School · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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The Mad Wife
Meagan Church

Feminism · Family Secrets · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Secret Past

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The Only One Left
Riley Sager

Nanny or Caregiver · Gothic Fiction · Secret Past · Atmospheric · Family Secrets

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The God of Endings
Jacqueline Holland

Gothic Fiction · Secret Past · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction

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The Miniaturist
Jessie Burton

Atmospheric · Feminism · Family Secrets · Gothic Fiction · Literary Fiction

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V E Schwab

Gothic Fiction · Feminism · Character-Driven · Atmospheric · Historical Fiction

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