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Books like The Mill on the Floss
The best books like The Mill on the Floss are Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot is about female intelligence and social constraint, family loyalty and self-betrayal, childhood and loss. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Middlemarch
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George Eliot · Classics
Middlemarch is the novel Virginia Woolf called the only English novel written for grown-up people, and the description is accurate if not entirely fair.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen · Classics
Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences in English literature and immediately establishes its ironic mode: a truth universally acknowledged turns out to be a social pressure universally imposed.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë · Classics
Jane Eyre is the first-person account of a woman who will not be diminished.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Becoming
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Michelle Obama · Memoir
Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.
A kindred classics read.
Read the summary → - Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Great Expectations follows Pip, an orphan boy on the Kent marshes who is yanked from modest obscurity into the orbit of wealth and social aspiration when an anonymous benefactor funds his move to London.
Both dig into class and ambition.
Read the summary → - In the Woods
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Tana French · Mystery
Dublin detective Rob Ryan is called to investigate a child's murder at an archaeological dig in Knocknaree — the same woods where, twenty years earlier, two of his childhood friends vanished without a trace and Rob was found clinging to a tree, bloodied and with no memory of what happened.
Both dig into childhood and loss.
Read the summary → - Me Before You
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Jojo Moyes · Romance
Louisa Clark is twenty-six, cheerfully aimless, and loses her job at the local café on the same day.
Both dig into class and ambition.
Read the summary → - Rules of Civility
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Amor Towles · Literary fiction
Rules of Civility opens in 1966, when Katey Kontent — now in her early forties — encounters a series of photographs at a gallery show.
Both dig into class and ambition.
Read the summary → - The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Thomas Hardy · Literary fiction
The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with an act so audacious it takes a moment to process: a drunken hay-trusser named Michael Henchard sells his wife and infant daughter at a country fair for five guineas.
Both dig into class and ambition.
Read the summary → - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante · Literary fiction
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay is the third novel in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, picking up where The Story of a New Name left off.
Both dig into class and ambition.
Read the summary → - Bleak House
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Bleak House is organized around the interminable Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — a legal dispute over a will that has been grinding through the Court of Chancery for decades, consuming the fortunes and lives of everyone attached to it.
A kindred classics read.
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Books like The Mill on the Floss: quick answers
What are the best books like The Mill on the Floss?
The best books like The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot are Middlemarch by George Eliot, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Becoming by Michelle Obama, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Mill on the Floss, such as female intelligence and social constraint, family loyalty and self-betrayal, childhood and loss.
What should I read after The Mill on the Floss?
A natural next read after The Mill on the Floss is Middlemarch by George Eliot. A kindred classics read. Other strong choices are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
What books are similar to The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot?
The Mill on the Floss centers on female intelligence and social constraint, family loyalty and self-betrayal, childhood and loss. Books with a similar feel include Middlemarch by George Eliot, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
