Books like Great Expectations
If you liked Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Jane Eyre
Because shares tags: classics, romance, coming of age.
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retold: Lowood, Thornfield, the attic secret, and Jane's refusal to shrink.
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Oliver Twist
Because also by Charles Dickens; shares tags: classics, crime, victorian.
An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: classics, romance, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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Mansfield Park
Because shares tags: classics, romance.
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
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A Thousand Boy Kisses
Because shares tags: romance, coming of age.
Poppy and Rune bind promise jar kisses before illness parts them.
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A Farewell to Arms
Because shares tags: classics, romance.
Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Because shares tags: romance, coming of age.
Two Chicago teens with one name collide, with Tiny Cooper's musical stealing every scene.
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Credence
Because shares tags: romance, coming of age.
An orphaned teen spends a mountain winter with her guardian and his two sons, and lines blur.
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We'll Always Have Summer
Because shares tags: romance, coming of age.
Belly must choose between Conrad and Jeremiah after two years with Jeremiah and a wedding plan at Cousins.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because shares tags: classics, romance.
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of…
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The Sun Also Rises
Because shares tags: classics, romance.
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
