Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
If you liked The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Interview with the Vampire
Because shares tags: horror, gothic, classics.
Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.
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Frankenstein
Because shares tags: classics, gothic, horror.
Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy, literary fiction.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: classics, gothic, horror.
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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'Salem's Lot
Because shares tags: horror, classics, gothic.
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
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Wuthering Heights
Because shares tags: classics, gothic, literary fiction.
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.
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Dracula
Because shares tags: classics, horror, gothic.
Count Dracula sails for England in letters and diaries, and Van Helsing leads the hunt to stop him.
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War and Peace
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Trial
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
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The Prince
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
