15 Top classics books like The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner, Jane Tompkins

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The Wide, Wide World

By: Susan Bogert Warner , Jane Tompkins

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

First published in 1850 and exceeded in popularity then only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, this domestic ep…

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Cover of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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2. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

By: Judith Flanders

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury m… read more

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  • 19th century
Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

3. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Carolyn L. Karcher, Catharine Maria Sedgwick

4. Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

By: Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chr… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

"It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

"All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Cover of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

By: Lew Wallace

4.03

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th cen… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"In warning there is strength."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"The enemy of man is man, my brother."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"Knowledge leaves no room for chances."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Cover of The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Joanne Dobson

6. 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

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

7. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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8. Ruth Hall and Other Writings

By: Fanny Fern , Joyce W. Warren

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Pay… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Little Men (Little Women, #2) by Louisa May Alcott, James Spanfeller

9. Little Men (Little Women, #2)

By: Louisa May Alcott , James Spanfeller

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1) by Marita Conlon-McKenna, Donald Teskey

10. Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna , Donald Teskey

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of bei… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1) by Michael Bond, Peggy Fortnum

11. A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.23

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddingt… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I'm not a criminal,"

-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)

"[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair."

-Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)

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12. Titus: A Comrade of the Cross

By: Florence Morse Kingsley

3.76

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

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  • christian fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Wide, Wide World

By: Susan Bogert Warner , Jane Tompkins

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

First published in 1850 and exceeded in popularity then only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, this domestic ep… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • young adult
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman

14. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

By: Karen Cushman

3.77

Format: 32 pages,

Dear Gram and Grampop, Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

15. Hospital Sketches

By: Louisa May Alcott

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. By the author of Little Women. A collection of letters written when … read more

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

16. 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

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

17. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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18. George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)

By: Janet Benge , Geoff Benge

4.23

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

This series chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men … read more

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19. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.00

Format: None pages,

. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller l… read more

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20. The Lamplighter

By: None

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

A female Bildungsroman, The Lamplighter tells the story of Gertrude Flint, an abandoned and mistrea… read more

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21. The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more

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22. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

23. The Coquette

By: Cathy N. Davidson , Hannah Webster Foster

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poe… read more

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24. The Bondwoman's Narrative

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Hannah Crafts

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The Barnes Noble Review Through a sequence of fortuitous events detailed in the introduction, noted… read more

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25. 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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26. 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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27. Charlotte Temple

By: Cathy N. Davidson , Susanna Rowson

3.64

Format: 216 pages,

Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular Am… read more

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28. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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29. The Seeds of Change (Leah's Garden #1)

By: Lauraine Snelling

4.33

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is succes… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17) by Rhys Bowen

30. The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)

By: Rhys Bowen

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage by Florence Marryat

31. The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

By: Florence Marryat

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet Brandt defies conventional categories, and does not fit socially although she is carefree a… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

4.03

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The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

Mark Twain

3.75

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Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

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