18 books like Oliver Twist

What to read after Oliver Twist — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1964 · ★ 4.5 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Shares: Community pick

Ragged Dick Horatio Alger, Jr. · 1868 · ★ 3.3 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidences of favor that it has been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and is presented to the public as the first volume of a series intended to illustrate the life and experiences of the friendless… Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1909 · ★ 4.2 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and… Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

David Copperfield [adaptation] Malvina G. Vogel · 1979 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood. Shares: Social conditions, Orphans, Coming-of-age

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

The little giant of Aberdeen County Tiffany Baker · 2009 · ★ 3.7 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Shares: Orphans, Manners and customs

Rothstein David Pietrusza · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Rothstein is a Germanic-language (German, Yiddish) surname of several possible origins: toponymic surname from a place with the same name near Merseburg; from a Germanic personal name, Hrodstein (hrod- (Hróð-), "fame", "glory",Oscar Kuhns, "Studies in Pennsylvania German Family Names", in: Americana Germanica Quarterly, vol.4, 1902, https://books.google.com/books?id=VAELAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA306 p.306]… Shares: Criminals, Social conditions

Never Say Die Anthony Horowitz · 2017 · ★ 4.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Following the events of Scorpia Rising, Alex relocates to San Francisco as he slowly recovers from the tragic death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists working for SCORPIA. With Jack gone, Alex feels lost and alone, but then, out of the blue, he receives a cryptic email--just three words long, but enough to make Alex believe that Jack may be alive. Armed… Shares: Orphans in fiction, Orphans

Amelia Henry Fielding · 1751 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Demanding Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a young army officer, and runs away to London. William is unjustly imprisoned in Newgate, and is subsequently seduced by Miss Matthews. Amelia stays faithful to her husband and forgives his transgression, but William soon draws them into trouble again as he accrues gambling debts trying to lift the couple out of poverty. Shares: Social conditions, Manners and customs

Walter Sherwood's Probation Horatio Alger, Jr. · 1897 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Young Walter wastes his college days by putting good times ahead of study; when his guardian finds out, he forces Walter to quit school and look for a job in Chicago. Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

Once upon a Crime Jimmy Cryans · 2012 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate ''Once upon a Crime'' (1992 film), 1992 American black comedy mystery film Shares: Criminals, Social conditions

The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey · 1921 · ★ 4.2 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The story of a foundling Columbine torn between her love for a good man and the duty of following her adopted father's plea to marry his morally twisted son and reform him. The arrival then on the scene of a man who is a good man but brings his own sorrow with him. he becomes her friend and guides her steps in making her decision between her love and duty. Shares: Orphans, Manners and customs

Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

Les Misérables Victor Hugo · 1862 · ★ 4.2 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre. Shares: Social conditions, Orphans

Across the Nightingale Floor Lian Hearn · 2002 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Already a sensation around the world, this first book of the Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale of war, passion, and intrigue, evoking the spirit of medieval Japan. It is the story of a boy who is suddenly plucked from his life in a remote and peaceful village to find himself a pawn in a political scheme filled with treacherous warlords, rivalry and the intensity of… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin · 1965 · ★ 4.4 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate African-American fiction Shares: Social conditions, Manners and customs

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