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Books Like To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf · about this book

Loved To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf? If its classics, stream of consciousness and lyrical prose hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with As I Lay Dying, Hamnet and Tom's Crossing. 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 To the Lighthouse: Classics · Stream of Consciousness · Lyrical Prose · Multiple POV · Literary Fiction

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   As I Lay Dying

   William Faulkner

   Stream of Consciousness · Large Family · Classics · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose

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   Hamnet

   Maggie O'Farrell

   Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced

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   Tom's Crossing

   Mark Z. Danielewski

   Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Grief and Mourning · Haunting · Omniscient Narrator

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   Lolita

   Vladimir Nabokov

   Lyrical Prose · Classics · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Death of a Parent

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   Titus Groan

   Mervyn Peake

   Classics · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Classics · Artist Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Death of a Parent · Omniscient Narrator

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   The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

   V.E. Schwab

   Lyrical Prose · Artist Protagonist · Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Literary Fiction

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8. 

   Shrines of Gaiety

   Kate Atkinson

   Large Family · World War I · Omniscient Narrator · Multiple POV · Literary Fiction

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9. 

   Perfume

   Patrick Süskind

   Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Haunting · Classics · Dense Prose

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    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Lyrical Prose · Classics · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Character-Driven

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    The Hounding

    Xenobe Purvis

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

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12. 

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced · Omniscient Narrator

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13. 

    Interview with the Vampire

    Anne Rice

    Lyrical Prose · Classics · Haunting · Grief and Mourning · Slow-Paced

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14. 

    Night Watch

    Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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15. 

    Menewood

    Nicola Griffith

    Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Slow-Paced · Grief and Mourning · Dense Prose

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16. 

    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

    Anthony Marra

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

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17. 

    The God of Endings

    Jacqueline Holland

    Lyrical Prose · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Grief and Mourning · Slow-Paced

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18. 

    The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

    Holly Ringland

    Lyrical Prose · Island · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced · Grief and Mourning

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19. 

    The Left Hand of Darkness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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    Orbital

    Samantha Harvey

    Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Death of a Parent · Slow-Paced

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