7 Top historical fiction books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce…

"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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3. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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4. 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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  • romance
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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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5. Pat the Bunny

By: Dorothy Kunhardt

4.08

Format: 20 pages, Board Book

The timeless children’s classic full of interactive fun—a perfect gift for new babies and first bir… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

By: Christa Wolf , Jan van Heurck

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 20th century
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  • novels
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8. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

Cover of The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6) by Laurell K. Hamilton

9. The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6)

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dating both a vampire and a werewolf isn't easy. But just to complicate Anita's already messy life,… read more

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  • romance
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10. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. Still Life

By: A.S. Byatt

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which c… read more

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Cover of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

12. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • banned books
  • erotica
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

13. The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)

By: John Galsworthy

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Sagachronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial … read more

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14. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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15. Year of Wonders

By: Geraldine Brooks

2.65

Format: 34 pages,

When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named… read more

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16. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

17. The Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more

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18. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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19. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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20. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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21. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

12 must-read fiction books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

Virginia Woolf

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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