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Books Like Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy · about this book

Loved Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy? If its classics, tragic and female lead hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Anna Karenina, The Four Winds and Les Misérables. 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 Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classics · Tragic · Female Lead · Victorian Era · Literary Fiction

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Fall From Grace · Tragic · Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction

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   The Four Winds

   Kristin Hannah

   Rural Farm · Single Mother · Tearjerker · Classism · Omniscient Narrator

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   Les Misérables

   Victor Hugo

   Tragic · Classism · Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Single Mother

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   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

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

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Working-Class Protagonist · Classics · Tearjerker · Classism · Tragic

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   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Teen Pregnancy · Working-Class Protagonist · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Classism

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   As I Lay Dying

   William Faulkner

   Teen Pregnancy · Rural Farm · Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Tragic

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8. 

   Lessons in Chemistry

   Bonnie Garmus

   Single Mother · Sexual Assault · Feminism · Omniscient Narrator · Character-Driven

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9. 

   Atonement

   Ian McEwan

   Tragic · Loss of Innocence · Sexual Assault · Classism · Literary Fiction

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10. 

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

    Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Omniscient Narrator · Tearjerker · Literary Fiction

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11. 

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    Rural Farm · Tragic · Classics · Working-Class Protagonist · Literary Fiction

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12. 

    Hamnet

    Maggie O'Farrell

    Tragic · Tearjerker · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced

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13. 

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Fall From Grace · Tragic · Classism · Classics · Literary Fiction

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    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Sexual Assault Content · Classics · Teen Pregnancy · Loss of Innocence · Tragic

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    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    Working-Class Protagonist · Classism · Feminism · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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16. 

    Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen

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

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17. 

    Gone with the Wind

    Margaret Mitchell

    Classics · Rural Farm · Omniscient Narrator · Fall From Grace · Tragic

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18. 

    We Begin at the End

    Chris Whitaker

    Single Mother · Loss of Innocence · Tearjerker · Tragic · Rural Farm

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19. 

    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott

    Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Tearjerker · Feminism · Emotional

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20. 

    The Seamstress

    Frances de Pontes Peebles

    Classism · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Feminism · Rural Farm

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