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Books Like The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton · about this book

Loved The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton? If its classics, wealthy families and classism hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina and Sense and Sensibility. 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 The Age of Innocence: Classics · Wealthy Families · Classism · Forbidden Love · New York City

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classics · Tragic · Classism · Wealthy Families · Wealthy Protagonist

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Tragic · Classics · Wealthy Families · Forbidden Love · Literary Fiction

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   Sense and Sensibility

   Jane Austen

   Classics · Secret Relationship · Classism · Omniscient Narrator · Wealthy Families

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   The Seamstress

   Frances de Pontes Peebles

   Classism · Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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   The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

   V.E. Schwab

   New York City · Bittersweet · Omniscient Narrator · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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   The Other Bennet Sister

   Janice Hadlow

   Character-Driven · Slow-Paced · Omniscient Narrator · Slow Burn Romance · Literary Fiction

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   Les Misérables

   Victor Hugo

   Classics · Tragic · Classism · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator

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8. 

   Gone with the Wind

   Margaret Mitchell

   Classics · Wealthy Protagonist · Love Triangle · Omniscient Narrator · Tragic

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9. 

   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Classics · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Classism · Forbidden Love

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10. 

    Of Human Bondage

    W. Somerset Maugham

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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11. 

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    Classics · Classism · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Historical Fiction

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12. 

    The Echo of Old Books

    Barbara Davis

    New York City · Bittersweet · Tragic · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven

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13. 

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Classics · Tragic · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Love Triangle

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    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Tragic · Classism · Wealthy Families · Literary Fiction · Forbidden Love

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15. 

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    Classism · Classics · Tragic · Bittersweet · Character-Driven

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    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    New York City · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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17. 

    Hamnet

    Maggie O'Farrell

    Tragic · Marriage in Trouble · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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18. 

    Memoirs of a Geisha

    Arthur Golden

    Forbidden Love · Classism · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet · Character-Driven

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19. 

    The Miniaturist

    Jessie Burton

    Secret Relationship · Wealthy Families · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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20. 

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Wealthy Protagonist · Forbidden Love · Secret Relationship · Bittersweet · Character-Driven

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