8 Best classics books like Possession by A.S. Byatt

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Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat…

"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

If you liked the classics plot in Possession by A.S. Byatt, None , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Prophet's Hair

By: Salman Rushdie

3.60

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasur… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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2. Oscar and Lucinda

By: Peter Carey

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

Similar categories in A.S. Byatt's Possession book and A.S. Byatt's Possession

  • romance
  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

Cover of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

5. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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7. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

9. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 200 pages,

Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more

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10. The French Lieutenant's Woman

By: John Fowles

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside … read more

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11. 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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  • romance
  • historical
"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

12. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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13. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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14. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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15. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

Similar categories in K. Ritz's Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master book and A.S. Byatt's Possession

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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16. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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

17. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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

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18. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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19. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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20. Decadence: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By: David Weir

3.83

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780190610227. The history of decadent culture runs from ancient… read more

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  • literature
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21. Кто-то плачет всю ночь за стеною

By: Александр Ермолаев

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Роман Александра Ермолаева – сборник историй о самых обычных людях, работающих в самой обычной кеме… read more

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  • fiction

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4.75

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3.66

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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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Samuel P. Huntington

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4.12

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