6 must-read classics books like Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

Cover of Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

By: Bayard Taylor

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joseph, a young man, marries a wealthy woman just as he is discovering an even more powerful love w…

If you liked the classics plot in Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

1. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • classics
  • fiction
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cover of Maurice by E.M. Forster

2. Maurice

By: E.M. Forster

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's Maurice book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • classics
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Joanne Dobson

3. The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap

By: E.D.E.N. Southworth , Joanne Dobson

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and … read more

Similar categories in E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly

4. The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Hermaphrodite by Gary  Williams, Julia Ward Howe, Gary Williams

5. The Hermaphrodite

By: Gary Williams , Julia Ward Howe , Gary Williams

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaph… read more

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  • classics
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Dracula by Bram Stoker, David J. Skal, Nina Auerbach

6. Dracula

By: Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach

4.02

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visi… read more

Similar categories in Bram Stoker's Dracula book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • 19th century
  • fiction
"Despair has its own calms."

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

7. Untouchable

By: E.M. Forster , Mulk Raj Anand

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's cast… read more

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8. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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9. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more

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10. Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

By: Fanny Fern , Susan Belasco

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experi… read more

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11. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

Similar categories in Philippe Besson's Lie With Me book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

Cover of Christine: Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers) by Laura Curtis Bullard

12. Christine: Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers)

By: Laura Curtis Bullard

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America’… read more

Similar categories in Laura Curtis Bullard's Christine: Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers) book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • fiction
Cover of Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

13. Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

By: Bayard Taylor

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joseph, a young man, marries a wealthy woman just as he is discovering an even more powerful love w… read more

Similar categories in Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania book and Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

  • classics
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • queer

9 must-read fiction books like Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Maurice

E.M. Forster

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap

E.D.E.N. Southworth , Joanne Dobson

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

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17 Best fiction books like Dracula by Bram Stoker, David J. Skal, Nina Auerbach

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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