8 books like Mrs. Dalloway

What to read after Mrs. Dalloway — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Susannah's Garden Debbie Macomber · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It was the year that changed everything… When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake—and never saw him again. She never saw her brother, Doug, again, either. He died unexpectedly that same year. Now, at fifty, Susannah finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing… Shares: Middle-aged women, First loves

The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on… Shares: First loves, Married women

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.9 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to… Shares: First loves, Married women

Middlemarch George Eliot · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 795p · ≈ 26h · Demanding Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language. Shares: Married women, Triangles

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · ★ 3.7 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine… Shares: Suicide victims, Married women

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James · 1881 · ★ 3.8 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman. Shares: Married women, Triangles

The Scarlet Letter Lake Education · 1935 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Nathaniel Hawthorne's powerful tale of forbidden love, shame and revenge comes to life in this manga presentation of the classic story. When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child, she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and ultimately the strength of the human spirit. Though set in a Puritan community during the Colonial American period, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility… Shares: Married women, Triangles

The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain · 1934 · ★ 3.6 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amantes unidos por el ardor y la ambición. Pero no será tan fácil librarse del viejo marido. Y habrá que contar, además, con el inescrutable destino: ese cartero que siempre llama dos… Shares: Married women, Triangles

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