11 must-read fiction books like Basil by Wilkie Collins

Cover of Basil by Wilkie Collins

Basil

By: Wilkie Collins

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, an…

If you liked the fiction plot in Basil by Wilkie Collins , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of New Grub Street by George Gissing

1. New Grub Street

By: George Gissing

3.78

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had exp… read more

Similar categories in George Gissing's New Grub Street book and Wilkie Collins's Basil

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
"Walker's a fool and Quarmby's an ass,' remarked her father."

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

"Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it."

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

"Confound it! It's just because nobody does anything that things have come to this pass!"

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

"The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain."

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

Cover of The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

2. The House on the Strand

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.83

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agre… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me."

-Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

Cover of East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood, Elisabeth Jay

3. East Lynne

By: Mrs. Henry Wood , Elisabeth Jay

3.73

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is… read more

Similar categories in Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne book and Wilkie Collins's Basil

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • mystery
"Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of tru…"

-Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

Cover of Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

4. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of Basil by Wilkie Collins

5. Basil

By: Wilkie Collins

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, an… read more

Similar categories in Wilkie Collins's Basil book and Wilkie Collins's Basil

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

6. The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of The Nether World by George Gissing

7. The Nether World

By: George Gissing

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

The Nether World(1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dra… read more

Similar categories in George Gissing's The Nether World book and Wilkie Collins's Basil

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, Michelle Allen

8. Lorna Doone

By: R.D. Blackmore , Michelle Allen

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1869, Lorna Dooneis the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

9. Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

5.00

Format: None pages,

* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction

10. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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11. A Pair of Blue Eyes

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Alan Manford

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall … read more

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12. 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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13. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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14. Liza of Lambeth

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Maugham's first published novel - a vividly realistic portrayal of slum life. Down among the drab s… read more

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15. 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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16. Rêver

By: Franck Thilliez

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Son heroine Abigael presente la caracteristique d'etre narcoleptique. Une narcolepsie severe qui la… read more

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17. The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more

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18. Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more

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Cover of Mania by Lionel Shriver

19. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

Similar categories in Lionel Shriver's Mania book and Wilkie Collins's Basil

  • fiction
Cover of Sprawa lorda Rosewortha by Małgorzata Starosta

20. Sprawa lorda Rosewortha

By: Małgorzata Starosta

3.48

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Sierpień 1959 roku. Jonathan Harper, prywatny detektyw borykający się z osobistą stratą, na prośbę … read more

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