12 must-read 19th century books like Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in…

"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

If you liked the 19th century plot in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • 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 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

2. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend book and Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

Cover of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

3. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Cover of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey

4. Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

5. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

By: Tobias Smollett

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Bramble's tour of the B… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

6. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

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  • historical fiction
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"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

Cover of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White

7. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4) by Anthony Trollope

8. Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4)

By: Anthony Trollope

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Fourth in the Barsetshire Chronicles, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE was published in 1860. In it the values of … read more

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  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

5.00

Format: None pages,

* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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11. The Ambassadors

By: Henry James , Harry Levin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more

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12. The Way We Live Now

By: Anthony Trollope

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more

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13. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire #6)

By: Anthony Trollope , None

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes… read more

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14. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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Cover of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, A.S. Byatt

15. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • british literature
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
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  • historical fiction
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

16. Charles Dickens

By: Claire Tomalin

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by unparalleled literary b… read more

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17. The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more

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18. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

19. The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

20. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more

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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

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