9 best-selling 19th century books like The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

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The Fallen Leaves

By: Wilkie Collins

3.68

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

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If you liked the 19th century plot in The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton , Regina Barreca

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy … read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Сюзи Бранч по мужски относилась к данному слову..."

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"О, благословенная нравственная свобода, которую дарует богатство!"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"...её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"...жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

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2. My Brilliant Career

By: Miles Franklin

3.80

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th cen… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache"

-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

"This is not a romance — I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]"

-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

"I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement."

-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

"I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through life…"

-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

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3. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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4. Los recuerdos del porvenir

By: Elena Garro

4.33

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Los recuerdos del porvenir es la historia coral del pueblo de Ixtepec, en alguna llanura cerca de M… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo sólo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga."

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

"Él sabía que el porvenir era un retroceder veloz hacia la muerte y la muerte el estado perfecto, el momento precioso en que el hombre recupera plenamente su otra memoria."

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

"¡Los abogados...! ¿Y a quién van a juzgar? Esperamos la respuesta consabida: a los traidores de la Patria. ¿Qué traición y qué patria? La Patria en esos días llevaba el nombre doble de Calles-Obregón…"

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

"Aquí estoy, sentado sobre esta piedra aparente. Sólo mi memoria sabe lo que encierra. La veo y me recuerdo, y como el agua va al agua, así yo, melancólico, vengo a encontrarme en su imagen cubierta p…"

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

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5. The Grey Woman

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The Grey Woman is a gothic novella written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is set in the mid-19th c… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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6. Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. A Heart So White

By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa

4.02

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

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8. Widow Barnaby

By: Frances Milton Trollope

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

First published in 1839, 'Widow Barnaby' is considerd to be one of Mrs Trollope's finest works. It … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more

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10. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

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11. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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12. The Versions of Us

By: Laura Barnett

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

What if you had said yes? The moments that change everything... One Day meets Sliding Doors in this… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Amethyst Box

By: Anna Katharine Green

3.50

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Juvenilia

By: Jane Austen

4.30

Format: None pages,

Jane Austen's shorter works * Frederic & Elfrida * Jack & Alice * Edgar & Emma * Henry and Eliza * … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction

16. Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more

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17. The Women's War

By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Baron des Canolles is a man torn apart by the civil war that dominates mid-seventeenth century … read more

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18. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

19. Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more

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20. The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II (Emily Fox-Seton #1-2)

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

First published in 1901 as The Making of a Marchioness followed by its sequel The Methods of Lady W… read more

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21. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more

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22. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1)

By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally… read more

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23. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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  • 19th century
  • british literature
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

24. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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25. Watch and Ward

By: Henry James

3.00

Format: None pages,

The rare original version of 'Watch and Ward' by acclaimed author, Henry James, as it appeared in T… read more

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26. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer by Joël Dicker

27. La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer

By: Joël Dicker

3.95

Format: 635 pages, Paperback

30 juillet 1994. Orphea, petite station balnéaire tranquille des Hamptons dans l’État de New York, … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Fallen Leaves

By: Wilkie Collins

3.68

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Experience of the reception of The Fallen Leaves by intelligent readers, who have followed the cour… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) by Michael McDowell

29. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. The Filigree Ball

By: Anna Katharine Green

3.82

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

For two weeks Washington has been abuzz with talk about what happened at the Moore house. The histo… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction

21 must-read fiction books like The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

Transform Your Habits

The Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton , Regina Barreca

3.86

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My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Los recuerdos del porvenir

Elena Garro

4.33

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Reuben Sachs

Amy Levy

3.39

Transform Your Habits

Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

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The Trumpet-Major

Thomas Hardy

3.69

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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

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