13 Best classics books like Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Cover of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

3.79

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a…

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"You are in every line I have ever read."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

If you liked the classics plot in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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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 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

2. 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

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She burned too bright for this world."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Anna Quindlen, George Saintsbury, A.C. Bradley, None, None

3. Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen , Mark Twain , Virginia Woolf , Anna Quindlen , George Saintsbury , A.C. Bradley , None , None

4.29

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novel… read more

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"Every savage can dance."

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"I might as well enquire,"

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"I am excessively diverted."

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Obstinate, headstrong girl!"

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Cover of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly

4. The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entang… read more

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5. The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.30

Format: 1276 pages, Paperback

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress o… read more

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"I am a Count, Not a Saint."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"He who has a partner has a master."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !"

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

6. The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more

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  • school
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7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

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"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Cover of Crimen y castigo by Fyodor Dostoevsky

8. Crimen y castigo

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los… read more

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9. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

10. To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that … read more

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11. Of Mice and Men

By: John Steinbeck

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more

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Cover of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, None

12. Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare , None

3.74

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. I… read more

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"thus with a kiss I die"

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Ay me! sad hours seem long."

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Educated men are so impressive!"

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

14. Emma

By: Jane Austen , Fiona Stafford

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.' Beaut… read more

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15. Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

3.79

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more

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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"You are in every line I have ever read."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

16. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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Cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

17. Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.09

Format: 964 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contempo… read more

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"Love those you hate you."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"And where love ends, hate begins"

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Everything intelligent is so boring."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Anything is better than lies and deceit!"

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Cover of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Tony Tanner, Ros Ballaster

18. Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen , Tony Tanner , Ros Ballaster

4.08

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convi… read more

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"to hope was to expect"

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"She was stronger alone…"

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"Sense will always have attractions for me."

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

19. 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

Cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

20. 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

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

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Cover of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

21. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

17 best-selling fiction books like Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen , Mark Twain , Virginia Woolf , Anna Quindlen , George Saintsbury , A.C. Bradley , None , None

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Scarlet Letter

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3.50

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20 best-selling fiction books like Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen , Mark Twain , Virginia Woolf , Anna Quindlen , George Saintsbury , A.C. Bradley , None , None

4.29

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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

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