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Books Like War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy · about this book

Loved War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy? If its classics, sprawling epic and historical fiction hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Middlemarch, Bleak House and The Portrait of a Lady. 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 War and Peace: Classics · Sprawling Epic · Historical Fiction · Multiple POV · Ensemble Cast

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   Middlemarch

   George Eliot

   Omniscient Narrator · Ensemble Cast · Slow-Paced · Classism · Sprawling Epic

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   Bleak House

   Charles Dickens

   Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced · Ensemble Cast · Dense Prose

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   The Portrait of a Lady

   Henry James

   Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Wealthy Protagonist · Dense Prose · Love Triangle

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   The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

   Victor Hugo

   Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Classism · Ensemble Cast · Dense Prose

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   The Age of Innocence

   Edith Wharton

   Omniscient Narrator · Wealthy Protagonist · Slow-Paced · Wealthy Families · Classics

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   One Hundred Years of Solitude

   Gabriel Garcia Marquez

   Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Ensemble Cast · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced

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   Howards End

   E.M. Forster

   Omniscient Narrator · Slow-Paced · Wealthy Families · Dense Prose · Classics

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8. 

   All the King's Men

   Robert Penn Warren

   Dense Prose · Classism · Slow-Paced · Classics · Character-Driven

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   The Idiot

   Fyodor Dostoyevsky

   Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Slow-Paced · Wealthy Families · Love Triangle

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10. 

    Corelli's Mandolin

    Louis de Bernieres

    Omniscient Narrator · War Zone · Ensemble Cast · Sprawling Epic · Love Triangle

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11. 

    Fall of Giants

    Ken Follett

    Sprawling Epic · Omniscient Narrator · War Zone · Ensemble Cast · Classism

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    Doctor Zhivago

    Boris Pasternak

    Sprawling Epic · Slow-Paced · Dense Prose · Classics · Love Triangle

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13. 

    The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand

    Omniscient Narrator · Wealthy Protagonist · Dense Prose · Wealthy Families · Slow-Paced

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14. 

    Vanity Fair

    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Omniscient Narrator · Classism · Wealthy Families · Sprawling Epic · Classics

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15. 

    The Luminaries

    Eleanor Catton

    Omniscient Narrator · Sprawling Epic · Ensemble Cast · Dense Prose · Slow-Paced

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16. 

    Song of Solomon

    Toni Morrison

    Multigenerational Family · Classism · Slow-Paced · Classics · Character-Driven

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17. 

    Emma

    Jane Austen

    Omniscient Narrator · Wealthy Families · Love Triangle · Classics · Classism

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18. 

    The Golden Days

    Cao Xueqin

    Sprawling Epic · Wealthy Families · Multigenerational Family · Ensemble Cast · Slow-Paced

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19. 

    The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck

    Omniscient Narrator · Multigenerational Family · Ensemble Cast · Classics · Slow-Paced

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20. 

    Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

    Evelyn Waugh

    Wealthy Families · Classism · Slow-Paced · Classics · Love Triangle

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