10 Top classics books like The Eight Cousins Series by Louisa May Alcott

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The Eight Cousins Series

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.41

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

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Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet

1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • classics
  • historical fiction
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

2. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Cover of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

3. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies

4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

5. The Bookshop on the Corner

By: Jenny Colgan

4.18

Format: 407 pages, ebook

Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... an… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Reginald Birch

6. Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Reginald Birch

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that m… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

8. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

9. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Cover of The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

10. The Blue Castle

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.94

Format: 255 pages,

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

11. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspens… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

12. My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolute… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

13. Shirley

By: Charlotte Brontë , Lucasta Miller , None , Jessica Cox

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a mora… read more

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14. Washington Square

By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more

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15. 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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16. Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented… read more

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17. These Three Remain (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman #3)

By: Pamela Aidan

4.43

Format: 85 pages,

The exciting conclusion to theFitzwilliam Darcy, Gentlemantrilogy recounts the climactic events of … read more

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18. An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman #1)

By: Pamela Aidan

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me." So begins the timeless romance of Fitzwill… read more

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Cover of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1) by Garth Nix

19. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

By: Garth Nix

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers w… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1) book and Louisa May Alcott's The Eight Cousins Series

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Shakespeare knew too much."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"Books help us anchor our souls, or re-anchor them; particularly for us, the left-handed, given the things we have to do."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

Cover of A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

20. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

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Cover of Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28) by Janet Evanovich

21. Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28)

By: Janet Evanovich

4.11

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartme… read more

Similar categories in Janet Evanovich's Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28) book and Louisa May Alcott's The Eight Cousins Series

  • fiction
Cover of All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny

22. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

By: Louise Penny

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more

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  • fiction
"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

Cover of Rebel Dragon (The Dragons of Esternes, #1) by Steve Turnbull

23. Rebel Dragon (The Dragons of Esternes, #1)

By: Steve Turnbull

4.29

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

What value is freedom when you can’t even ride a dragon?As the life of a slave goes, Kantees doesn'… read more

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24. The Jane Austen Society

By: Natalie Jenner

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel! Just after the S… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Saved by Jane Austen"

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"But one can always read Austen."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"You read too much. You read her to much."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

"Reading, she now understood, had been her own choice of rebellion."

-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

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25. The Foundling

By: Ann Leary

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1) by S.J.  Bennett

26. The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)

By: S.J. Bennett

3.52

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception (The Secret Life of Mary Bennet, #3) by Katherine Cowley

27. The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception (The Secret Life of Mary Bennet, #3)

By: Katherine Cowley

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What is a spy willing to do when both her heart and her country are at risk? Life changes once a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Cowley's The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception (The Secret Life of Mary Bennet, #3) book and Louisa May Alcott's The Eight Cousins Series

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Eight Cousins Series

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.41

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

Kindle edition of Alcott's Eight Cousin Series with an active table of contents. This edition inclu… read more

Similar categories in Louisa May Alcott's The Eight Cousins Series book and Louisa May Alcott's The Eight Cousins Series

  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

18 Top fiction books like The Eight Cousins Series by Louisa May Alcott

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Bookshop on the Corner

Jenny Colgan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett , Reginald Birch

4.23

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16 Top fiction books like The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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The First Ladies

Marie Benedict

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

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