16 must-read fiction books like Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E.M. Forster

3.60

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour…

"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

If you liked the fiction plot in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland

1. Rachel Ray

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

It is through reading novels, wrote Trollope in his Autobiography, 'that girls learn what is expect… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."

-Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray

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2. The Public Image

By: Muriel Spark

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"All homage to Muriel Spark, the coolest writer ever to scald your liver and your lights" ( The Was… read more

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  • italy
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  • 20th century
  • fiction
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3. Bliss

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback

But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • audiobook
"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

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4. 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
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  • historical fiction
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"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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5. Summer

By: Edith Wharton

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
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6. The Caxley Chronicles

By: Miss Read

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Caxley, the quiet country town neighboring the village of Fairacre, The Caxley Chronicles fo… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

7. Decline and Fall

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more

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  • classics
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  • 20th century
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Cover of The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley

8. The Tricking of Freya

By: Christina Sunley

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A young woman obsessed with uncovering a family secret is drawn into the strange and magical histor… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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  • british literature
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  • historical fiction
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Cover of The Go-Between by Colm Tóibín, L.P. Hartley

10. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

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11. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 20th century
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  • novels
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12. 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
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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"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

13. Washington Square

By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more

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14. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more

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15. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • romance
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  • british literature
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  • historical fiction
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  • audiobook
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

Cover of An Academic Question by Barbara Pym

16. An Academic Question

By: Barbara Pym

3.58

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more

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17. The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more

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Cover of Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

18. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Cover of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

19. Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E.M. Forster

3.60

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour… read more

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  • romance
  • italy
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
  • audiobook
"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

Cover of How Much is Enough?: Getting More by Living With Less by Claire Berger

20. How Much is Enough?: Getting More by Living With Less

By: Claire Berger

4.70

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed writer and comedian Claire Berger is asking out loud the question you’ve been silently po… read more

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12 Best novels books like Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

Transform Your Habits

Rachel Ray

Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

3.83

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The Public Image

Muriel Spark

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

3.83

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

4.88

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The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

4.02

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The Summer Book

Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

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A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

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