18 must-read fiction books like A Christmas Carol / A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol / A Christmas Tree

By: Charles Dickens

4.36

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A Christmas Carol is a morality tale about Ebenezer Scrooge, a contemptuous, penny-pinching man who…

If you liked the fiction plot in A Christmas Carol / A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • fantasy
  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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2. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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3. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before he had a family, before he met Moominmamma, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue… read more

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  • fantasy
  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
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5. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • classics

6. Love Story (Love Story, #1)

By: Erich Segal

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a ca… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

8. The Festival of Insignificance

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an une… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

9. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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10. The Graveyard Book Volume 1

By: Neil Gaiman , Lovern Kindzierski , P. Craig Russell , Jill Thompson , Scott Hampton , Tony Harris , Kevin Nowlan , Galen Showman , None

4.50

Format: 142 pages, ebook

The first volume of a glorious two-volume, four-color graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's #1 … read more

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11. The Cider House Rules

By: John Irving

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr.… read more

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12. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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13. A Spool of Blue Thread

By: Anne Tyler

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A freshly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel from Anne Tyler "It was a beauti… read more

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14. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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15. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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16. A Boy Called Christmas

By: Matt Haig

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is… read more

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17. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • classics
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

18. Breakfast at Tiffany's

By: Truman Capote

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more

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19. In.

By: Will McPhail

4.38

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's jou… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Driving Home for Christmas

By: Joanna Bolouri

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Three Christmases. Two broken hearts. One hell of a journey. Driving home marks the start of t… read more

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  • christmas
  • fiction
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22. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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  • fiction
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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23. My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

By: Meik Wiking

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, helps you turn your home into… read more

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24. Slade House

By: David Mitchell

3.81

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"

-David Mitchell, Slade House

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25. Cage of Souls

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.13

Format: 602 pages, Hardcover

The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all citi… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He'll be my catamite."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

"Living in a cage teaches you helplessness."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

"When surrounded by ignorance, the educated man can get away with anything."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

"Even the simplest plans go wrong, especially when put together by the simplest people."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

Cover of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

26. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

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27. A Ladder to the Sky

By: John Boyne

4.21

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—b… read more

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  • fiction
"I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up."

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

"I've known a lot of whores in my life," added Gore, [...]. "Both men and women. And in general, I've always found them to be good company, with a highly evolved sense of honor. A whore will never che…"

-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

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28. The Lost Tide Warriors (Storm Keeper, #2)

By: Catherine Doyle

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In the brilliant sequel to The Storm Keeper's Island, winner of the Books are My Bag Readers Award,… read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Above the thunder clash of an angry sky, the Tide Summoner rang out."

-Catherine Doyle, The Lost Tide Warriors (Storm Keeper, #2)

"It was like his mother always said: Rose-coloured glasses disguise red flags – and Bartley was draped in them."

-Catherine Doyle, The Lost Tide Warriors (Storm Keeper, #2)

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29. Ancestry

By: Simon Mawer

4.02

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts thro… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Christmas Carol / A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens

30. A Christmas Carol / A Christmas Tree

By: Charles Dickens

4.36

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A Christmas Carol is a morality tale about Ebenezer Scrooge, a contemptuous, penny-pinching man who… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

31. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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