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Books Like Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo · about this book

Loved Les Misérables by Victor Hugo? If its classics, sprawling epic and redemption arc hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with A Tale of Two Cities, Anna Karenina and The Count of Monte Cristo. 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 Les Misérables: Classics · Sprawling Epic · Redemption Arc · Historical Fiction · Economic Inequality

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   A Tale of Two Cities

   Charles Dickens

   Redemption Arc · Paris · Class Struggle · Revolution · Classics

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic · Sprawling Epic · Classism

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   The Count of Monte Cristo

   Alexandre Dumas

   Paris · Classics · Sprawling Epic · Omniscient Narrator · Historical Fiction

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   Fall of Giants

   Ken Follett

   Class Struggle · Revolution · Sprawling Epic · Classism · Ensemble Cast

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Classics · Paris · Literary Fiction · Economic Inequality · Slow-Paced

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   The Four Winds

   Kristin Hannah

   Economic Inequality · Class Struggle · Classism · Omniscient Narrator · Historical Fiction

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7. 

   The Seamstress

   Frances de Pontes Peebles

   Class Struggle · Classism · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic

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8. 

   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classics · Tragic · Classism · Economic Inequality · Literary Fiction

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   A Far Better Thing

   H.G. Parry

   Revolution · Paris · Redemption Arc · Tragic · Historical Fiction

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10. 

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    Class Struggle · Revolution · Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic

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11. 

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    Economic Inequality · Classics · Tragic · Classism · Literary Fiction

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12. 

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    Class Struggle · Classics · Tragic · Classism · Emotional

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13. 

    The Grace of Kings

    Ken Liu

    Revolution · Sprawling Epic · Omniscient Narrator · Ensemble Cast · Rebels and Resistance

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    The Return of the King

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    Classics · Sprawling Epic · Omniscient Narrator · Ensemble Cast · Dense Prose

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15. 

    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    Redemption Arc · Tragic · Classism · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction

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    The Paris Express

    Emma Donoghue

    Paris · Class Struggle · Ensemble Cast · Classism · Literary Fiction

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17. 

    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Class Struggle · Economic Inequality · Classics · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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18. 

    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Tragic · Dense Prose · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic · Historical Fiction

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19. 

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Classics · Tragic · Classism · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction

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20. 

    Pachinko

    Min Jin Lee

    Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Classism · Literary Fiction · Emotional

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