Books like Oliver Twist
If you liked Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Great Expectations
Because also by Charles Dickens; shares tags: classics, victorian, crime.
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
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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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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
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A Study in Scarlet
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
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The Time Machine
Because shares tags: classics, victorian.
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: classics, victorian.
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Because shares tags: crime, london.
Broke detective Strike and temp Robin investigate a supermodel's fatal fall in London.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Because shares tags: classics, victorian.
Alice follows the White Rabbit, grows and shrinks through tea, croquet and trial.
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The Secret History
Because shares tags: crime, classics.
A California outsider joins six classics students whose Greek rite ends in murder.
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A Clockwork Orange
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Teenage Alex leads his droogs on ultraviolent nights until the state rewrites him with the Ludovico Technique.
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Crime and Punishment
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker to prove he is beyond morals, then unravels under Porfiry and Sonya.
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Anne of Green Gables
Because shares tags: classics, orphans.
L. M. Montgomery brings talkative Anne Shirley to Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, where mistakes, school rivalries, and fierce…
