Books like Jane Eyre

If you liked Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens · 1861

    Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, victorian.

    Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.

  2. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

    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.

  3. Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen · 1817

    Because shares tags: romance, gothic, coming of age.

    Naive Catherine Morland mixes gothic novels with real Bath society and love.

  4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

    Because shares tags: classics, gothic, victorian.

    A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.

  5. Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier · 1938

    Because shares tags: gothic, classics, romance.

    A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.

  6. Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë · 1847

    Because shares tags: classics, gothic, romance.

    Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.

  7. Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen · 1814

    Because shares tags: classics, romance.

    Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

  8. A Thousand Boy Kisses

    Tillie Cole · 2016

    Because shares tags: romance, coming of age.

    Poppy and Rune bind promise jar kisses before illness parts them.

  9. A Farewell to Arms

    Ernest Hemingway · 1929

    Because shares tags: classics, romance.

    Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.

  10. Will Grayson, Will Grayson

    John Green and David Levithan · 2010

    Because shares tags: romance, coming of age.

    Two Chicago teens with one name collide, with Tiny Cooper's musical stealing every scene.

  11. Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens · 1838

    Because shares tags: classics, victorian.

    An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.

  12. Credence

    Penelope Douglas · 2020

    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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