13 Top school books like To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor…

"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

If you liked the school plot in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason

1. Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more

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"Never,"

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"You are human and fallible."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Conventionality is not morality."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

2. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Cover of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra, Oliver Stallybrass

3. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

4. Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. At the centre of this novel is the passi… read more

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"He’s more myself than I am"

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Terror made me cruel . . ."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She burned too bright for this world."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Cover of The Stranger by Albert Camus, 
Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

5. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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6. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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7. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

8. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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9. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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10. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • literature
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11. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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12. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

Cover of The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

13. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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14. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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15. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

Cover of As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

16. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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17. The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more

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"I woke to the sound of rain."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

18. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

19. Bloom

By: None

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Bloomis the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technici… read more

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20. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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21. 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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22. Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff

4.27

Format: 671 pages, Paperback

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more

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"Life [had] replaced logic."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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23. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

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"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Cover of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norman Dietz, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Boris de Schlœzer, Emanuela Guercetti, None, Donald Fanger, None, None, None

24. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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25. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

26. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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27. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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28. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

Cover of Howards End by E.M. Forster

29. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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30. The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more

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"To define is to limit."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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31. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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