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Books Like Middlemarch

by George Eliot · about this book

Loved Middlemarch by George Eliot? If its classics, marriage in trouble and literary fiction hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre and The Seamstress. 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 Middlemarch: Classics · Marriage in Trouble · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Omniscient Narrator

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Marriage in Trouble · Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Victorian Era · Classics · Feminism · Classism · Literary Fiction

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   The Seamstress

   Frances de Pontes Peebles

   Classism · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic · Feminism · Marriage in Trouble

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Victorian Era · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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   Les Misérables

   Victor Hugo

   Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Dense Prose · Ensemble Cast · Literary Fiction

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   Pride and Prejudice

   Jane Austen

   Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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   Little Women

   Louisa May Alcott

   Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Character-Driven · Feminism · Bittersweet

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   Great Expectations

   Charles Dickens

   Victorian Era · Classics · Bittersweet · Literary Fiction · Classism

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   The Other Bennet Sister

   Janice Hadlow

   Character-Driven · Slow-Paced · Feminism · Classism · Omniscient Narrator

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    Titus Groan

    Mervyn Peake

    Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Literary Fiction

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    The Bee Sting

    Paul Murray

    Marriage in Trouble · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Small Town · Classism

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    Pachinko

    Min Jin Lee

    Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Classism · Character-Driven

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    Classics · Small Town · Literary Fiction · Classism · Bittersweet

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    The Map of Time

    Félix J. Palma

    Victorian Era · Omniscient Narrator · Dense Prose · Ensemble Cast · Slow-Paced

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    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Classics · Marriage in Trouble · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Classism

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    Daisy Jones & the Six

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Ensemble Cast · Bittersweet · Marriage in Trouble · Character-Driven · Multiple POV

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    The Weight of Ink

    Rachel Kadish

    Feminism · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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    The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

    Mathias Énard

    Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Small Town · Omniscient Narrator · Ensemble Cast

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    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Classics · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose

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    The Mists of Avalon

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Feminism · Classics · Slow-Paced · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose

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