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Loved Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence? If its classics, infidelity and forbidden love hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Age of Innocence, Tipping the Velvet and The Awakening. 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 Lady Chatterley's Lover: Classics · Infidelity · Forbidden Love · Classism · Literary Fiction
Edith Wharton
Secret Relationship · Classism · Forbidden Love · Class Struggle · Marriage in Trouble
Sarah Waters
Secret Relationship · Sexuality and Intimacy · Forbidden Love · Class Struggle · Classism
Kate Chopin
Infidelity · Secret Relationship · Marriage in Trouble · Forbidden Love · Classics
George Eliot
Classism · Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Class Struggle · Self-Discovery
Tracy Chevalier
Secret Relationship · Class Struggle · Classism · Forbidden Love · Self-Discovery
Elena Ferrante
Class Struggle · Sexuality and Intimacy · Classism · Self-Discovery · Infidelity
Leo Tolstoy
Infidelity · Forbidden Love · Marriage in Trouble · Classism · Classics
Elizabeth Gaskell
Classism · Class Struggle · Secret Relationship · Classics · Forbidden Love
Nancy Horan
Secret Relationship · Infidelity · Marriage in Trouble · Forbidden Love · Self-Discovery
Gustave Flaubert
Infidelity · Marriage in Trouble · Classism · Forbidden Love · Classics
Theodore Dreiser
Secret Relationship · Class Struggle · Classism · Forbidden Love · Infidelity
E.M. Forster
Classism · Class Struggle · Classics · Marriage in Trouble · Literary Fiction
Boris Pasternak
Class Struggle · Forbidden Love · Classics · Infidelity · Literary Fiction
Jean Rhys
Marriage in Trouble · Sexuality and Intimacy · Class Struggle · Classics · Infidelity
Margaret Atwood
Classism · Secret Relationship · Class Struggle · Sexuality and Intimacy · Forbidden Love
Evelyn Waugh
Classism · Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Forbidden Love · Infidelity
Thomas Hardy
Class Struggle · Classism · Infidelity · Marriage in Trouble · Classics
Philippa Gregory
Secret Relationship · Infidelity · Forbidden Love · Class Struggle · Love Triangle
Henry James
Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Self-Discovery · Classism · Literary Fiction
Jane Austen
Classism · Class Struggle · Secret Relationship · Classics · Self-Discovery
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