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Books Like The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James · about this book

Loved The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James? If its classics, female lead and character-driven hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby. 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 Portrait of a Lady: Classics · Female Lead · Character-Driven · Victorian Era · Slow-Paced

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   Anna Karenina

   Leo Tolstoy

   Classics · Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Victorian Era · Classics · Feminism · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classics · Wealthy Protagonist · Marriage in Trouble · Tragic · Literary Fiction

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

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

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   The Other Bennet Sister

   Janice Hadlow

   Character-Driven · Slow-Paced · Feminism · Omniscient Narrator · Female Lead

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   The Seamstress

   Frances de Pontes Peebles

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

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   Gone with the Wind

   Margaret Mitchell

   Classics · Wealthy Protagonist · Tragic · Omniscient Narrator · Female Lead

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   Pride and Prejudice

   Jane Austen

   Classics · Omniscient Narrator · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Female Lead

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   Les Misérables

   Victor Hugo

   Classics · Dense Prose · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Classics · Freedom vs Control · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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11. 

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    Victorian Era · Classics · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Dense Prose

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    Hamnet

    Maggie O'Farrell

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

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    1984

    George Orwell

    Classics · Tragic · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Freedom vs Control

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    The Witch's Heart

    Genevieve Gornichec

    Tragic · Feminism · Marriage in Trouble · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced

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15. 

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Classics · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Victorian Era · Dense Prose

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17. 

    The Mists of Avalon

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Tragic · Feminism · Classics · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose

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18. 

    Titus Groan

    Mervyn Peake

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

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19. 

    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott

    Classics · Character-Driven · Feminism · Omniscient Narrator · Female Lead

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    Katabasis

    R. F. Kuang

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

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