25 Top fiction books like Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Lodore

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.39

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

""Lodore"" is a novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of the famous novel ""Fran…

"Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

"Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

"Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

"Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

If you liked the fiction plot in Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

By: Mona Awad

3.07

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way… read more

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  • fiction
"The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while."

-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

"But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction."

-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

"Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys …"

-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

"What does she even eat, do you think?" "Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable." "Sad," I say. "It is," Ruth muses. We …"

-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

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2. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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3. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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4. The Children of Jocasta

By: Natalie Haynes

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Penelopiad

By: Margaret Atwood

3.72

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"the gods often mumble"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

"Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others."

-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

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6. The Well of Loneliness

By: Radclyffe Hall

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Everything Is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching fo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Blood Water Paint

By: Joy McCullough

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Her mo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Save Me the Waltz

By: Zelda Fitzgerald , Harry T. Moore

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

One of the great literary curios of the 20th century, Save Me the Waltzis the first and only novel … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Mary Shelley

By: Miranda Seymour

4.35

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • mary shelley

13. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

By: John Kelly

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more

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14. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

15. The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

By: Anne Rice

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of … read more

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16. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

By: Charlotte Gordon

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

Romantic Outlawsis the first book to tell the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary … read more

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17. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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18. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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  • fiction
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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20. The Weaver and the Witch Queen

By: Genevieve Gornichec

3.88

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger

3.95

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still … read more

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  • fiction
"Hey Daysona!"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

"And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had…"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

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22. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

By: Claire North

3.70

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."

-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

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23. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • classics
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Cover of Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) by Hannah Kaner

24. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

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  • fiction
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

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25. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul

27. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

By: Joanne Paul

4.17

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more

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28. Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.83

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fra… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Enter the Body by Joy McCullough

29. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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30. The Orchard

By: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"So she wove a wreath from bluebells and delicate white flowers and placed it on my head. It smelled like withered grass, like the end of summer."

-Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, The Orchard

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31. Lodore

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.39

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

""Lodore"" is a novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of the famous novel ""Fran… read more

Similar categories in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Lodore book and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Lodore

  • classics
  • mary shelley
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • drama
"Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

"Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

"For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

"I have but one passion ; it swallows up every other ; it dwells with my darling books, and is fed by the treasures of beauty and wisdom which they contain."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore

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Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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Joan Lindsay

3.67

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3.91

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Jonathan Franzen

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