Books like…

Books Like Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf · about this book

Loved Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf? If its classics, literary fiction and stream of consciousness hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with As I Lay Dying, Anna Karenina and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. 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 Mrs. Dalloway: Classics · Literary Fiction · Stream of Consciousness · Character-Driven · London

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   As I Lay Dying

   William Faulkner

   Stream of Consciousness · Classics · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Dense Prose

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

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

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   Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

   V E Schwab

   Nonlinear Narrative · Lyrical Prose · Feminism · London · Character-Driven

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   Night Watch

   Jayne Anne Phillips

   Lyrical Prose · PTSD · War Trauma · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   The Weight of Ink

   Rachel Kadish

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

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   Hamnet

   Maggie O'Farrell

   Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Nonlinear Narrative · Character-Driven · Omniscient Narrator

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   Titus Groan

   Mervyn Peake

   Classics · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Omniscient Narrator

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8. 

   The Mirror & the Light

   Hilary Mantel

   Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · London · Lyrical Prose · Dense Prose

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9. 

   The Night Circus

   Erin Morgenstern

   Nonlinear Narrative · Lyrical Prose · Slow-Paced · Multiple POV · Character-Driven

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    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Classics · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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11. 

    Of Human Bondage

    W. Somerset Maugham

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

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12. 

    The Return of the King

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

    Classics · War Trauma · PTSD · Dense Prose · Omniscient Narrator

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    Menewood

    Nicola Griffith

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

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14. 

    There Are Rivers in the Sky

    Elif Shafak

    Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · London · Omniscient Narrator · Multiple POV

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15. 

    The Seamstress

    Frances de Pontes Peebles

    Literary Fiction · Feminism · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced · Multiple POV

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16. 

    Shrines of Gaiety

    Kate Atkinson

    London · Nonlinear Narrative · Omniscient Narrator · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    War Trauma · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · PTSD · Nonlinear Narrative

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    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Lyrical Prose · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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    The Hounding

    Xenobe Purvis

    Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Feminism · Slow-Paced · Multiple POV

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    The Listeners

    Maggie Stiefvater

    Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Lyrical Prose · Slow-Paced · Multiple POV

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