10 Top classics books like The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving

Cover of The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

By: Washington Irving

3.74

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the…

If you liked the classics plot in The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler

1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
"She was a cute as a washtub."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Cover of The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne

2. The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Lloyd Osbourne

3.43

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
Cover of Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, Stephen Pearl, Galya Diment

3. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

Similar categories in Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

Cover of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

Similar categories in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Cover of Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

5. Double Indemnity

By: James M. Cain

4.06

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more

Similar categories in James M. Cain's Double Indemnity book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

Cover of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

6. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

7. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's As You Like It book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics

8. The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition

By: Flavius Josephus , William Whiston

3.67

Format: None pages,

Encounter the world and traditions that Jesus knew. Illuminate your understanding of the New Testam… read more

Similar categories in Flavius Josephus's The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

9. The Confidence-Man

By: Herman Melville , Tony Tanner , John Dugdale

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the M… read more

Similar categories in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Cover of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Brian W. Aldiss, Michael Glencross

10. Around the World in Eighty Days

By: Jules Verne , Brian W. Aldiss , Michael Glencross

3.96

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe … read more

Similar categories in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
"Boy, why are you crying?"

-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

"Oh, the cleverness of me!"

-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

"Two is the beginning of the end."

-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

"Forever is a very long time Peter"

-Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

Cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

Similar categories in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • classics
"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Cover of The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving

12. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

By: Washington Irving

3.74

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the… read more

Similar categories in Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus book and Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • history

11 must-read fiction books like The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

Transform Your Habits

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

Mark Twain

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.