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Books Like The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman · about this book

Loved The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? If its classics, feminism and literary fiction hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Cask of Amontillado, The Haunting of Hill House and Wide Sargasso Sea. 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 Yellow Wall-Paper: Classics · Feminism · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Unreliable Narrator

1. 

   The Cask of Amontillado

   Edgar Allan Poe

   Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Gothic Fiction · Haunting

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   The Haunting of Hill House

   Shirley Jackson

   Psychological Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Gothic Horror · Depression · Gothic Fiction

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   Wide Sargasso Sea

   Jean Rhys

   Unreliable Narrator · Feminism · Gothic Fiction · Depression · Eerie

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4. 

   The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels

   Henry James

   Psychological Horror · Gothic Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Gothic Fiction · Haunting

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5. 

   The Mad Wife

   Meagan Church

   Postpartum Depression · Feminism · Depression · Haunting · Unreliable Narrator

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6. 

   Villette

   Charlotte Bronte

   Feminism · Unreliable Narrator · Gothic Fiction · Depression · Classics

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7. 

   Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

   Grant Morrison

   Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Gothic Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Haunting

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8. 

   Wieland; or The Transformation, and Memoirs of Carwin, The Biloquist

   Charles Brockden Brown

   Gothic Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Gothic Fiction · Eerie · Classics

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9. 

   The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

   Robert Louis Stevenson

   Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Gothic Fiction · Haunting · Eerie

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10. 

    Flowers in the Attic

    V.C. Andrews

    Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Eerie · Gothic Fiction · Haunting

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11. 

    Mary Reilly

    Valerie Martin

    Gothic Horror · Gothic Fiction · Diary Format · Eerie · Unreliable Narrator

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12. 

    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

    James Hogg

    Gothic Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Gothic Fiction · Haunting · Classics

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13. 

    Annihilation

    Jeff VanderMeer

    Psychological Horror · Diary Format · Unreliable Narrator · Haunting · Eerie

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14. 

    We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Lionel Shriver

    Postpartum Depression · Unreliable Narrator · Depression · Haunting · Literary Fiction

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15. 

    The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath

    Unreliable Narrator · Feminism · Depression · Haunting · Classics

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16. 

    A Rose for Emily

    William Faulkner

    Gothic Horror · Gothic Fiction · Haunting · Eerie · Classics

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17. 

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    Diary Format · Gothic Horror · Haunting · Gothic Fiction · Eerie

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18. 

    Motherthing

    Ainslie Hogarth

    Psychological Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Depression · Eerie · Literary Fiction

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19. 

    Houdini Heart

    Ki Longfellow

    Psychological Horror · Gothic Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Eerie · First Person Narrator

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20. 

    The Blind Owl

    Sadegh Hedayat

    Psychological Horror · Unreliable Narrator · Depression · Haunting · Classics

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