Read-alikes and related books

Books like Dickens’s London

24 books recommended for fans of Dickens’s London by Peter Clark, tied together by themes of Hikes & Walks, Essays & Travelogues, Western, and Special Interest.

Hikes & Walks Essays & Travelogues Western Special Interest Literary Figures English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European Literary Criticism Travel Europe Literary Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Dickens’s London

A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of Dickens’s London.

Walking Home A Poet’s Journey

Simon Armitage

Themes: Hikes & Walks • Essays & Travelogues • Special Interest

White Hart Red Lion The England of Shakespeare’s Histories

Nick Asbury

Themes: Special Interest • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Ghost Milk Calling Time on the Grand Project

Iain Sinclair

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Footsteps Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

Richard Holmes

Themes: Special Interest • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Coasting

Jonathan Raban

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Flame Trees of Thika Memories of an African Childhood

Elspeth Huxley

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Waugh in Abyssinia

Evelyn Waugh

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

This Place Speaks to Me An Anthology of People and Places

John Quinn

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Edge of the Orison In the Traces of John Clare’s ‘Journey Out of Essex&#8217

Iain Sinclair

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#10

Drink Time! In the Company of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Dolores Payás

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#11

A Dylan Odyssey

Literature Wales

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Special Interest • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#12

The Summer of a Dormouse

John Mortimer

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#13

With Chatwin Portrait of a Writer

Susannah Clapp

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#14

Virginia Woolf in Richmond

Peter Fullagar

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#15

Testament of Youth An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

Vera Brittain

Themes: Western • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#16

English Hours A Portrait of a Country

Henry James

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Special Interest • Literary Figures

#17

Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets – Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey

Thomas De Quincey

Themes: Hikes & Walks • Special Interest • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#18

Travels

Michael Crichton

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Special Interest • Literary Figures

#19

Two Old Farts and a Motorhome!!

Patti Trickett

Themes: Western • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#20

Pictures From Italy

Charles Dickens

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#21

Alice in Waterland Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford

Mark Davies

Themes: Special Interest • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#22

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#23

Literary London A Street by Street Exploration of the Capital’s Literary Heritage

Ed Glinert

Themes: Special Interest • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#24

Treasured Island A Book Lover’s Tour of Britain

Frank Barrett

Themes: Special Interest • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Dickens’s London by Peter Clark — spanning Hikes & Walks, Essays & Travelogues, Western and featuring authors such as Simon Armitage, Nick Asbury, Iain Sinclair, Richard Holmes, and others.