Read-alikes and related books

Books like Dubliners

If you loved Dubliners by James Joyce, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in English as a Second Language, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Short Stories (single author).

English as a Second Language Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Short Stories (single author) Foreign Language Study Political European Literary Criticism Classics Literary Historical Fiction

Top related books to Dubliners

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

The Awakening And Other Stories

Kate Chopin

Themes: English as a Second Language • Short Stories (single author) • Foreign Language Study

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

King Arthur and His Knights Selected Tales — Sir Thomas Malory

SIR THOMAS. MALORY

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

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

The Mabinogion — []

Freida McFadden

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

The War of the Ring The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Oscar Wilde – The Major Works

Oscar Wilde

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#10

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

#11

Chronicles of the Canongate

Sir Walter Scott

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

#12

The Atlas of Middle-earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

#13

The Penguin Guide to Literature in English Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#14

THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello The Moor of Venice

William Shakespeare

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#15

The Gaze of the Caged Woman Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays

Ila Ahlawat

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#16

Giving Shape to the Moment The Art of Mary O’Donnell : Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer

María Elena Jaime de Pablos

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#17

English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma

Brad Philpot

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#18

Nineteenth-century English

Richard W. Bailey

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#19

Jack London

Kenneth K. Brandt

Themes: English as a Second Language • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Foreign Language Study

#20

Malory The Knight Who Became King Arthur’s Chronicler

Christina Hardyment

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#21

Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore

W. B. Yeats

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#22

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Themes: English as a Second Language • Foreign Language Study • Literary Criticism

#23

Relations An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Ayesha Harruna Attah

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Short Stories (single author) • European

#24

Adam Bede

George Eliot

Themes: English as a Second Language • Foreign Language Study • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of English as a Second Language, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh — the same threads that run through Dubliners by James Joyce. Among the authors featured: Kate Chopin, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and others.