Read-alikes and related books

Books like Emma

What to read after Emma by Jane Austen: 24 titles sharing themes of Women's Studies, Literary Criticism, Classics, and Social Science, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Top related books to Emma

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Emma.

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (Including Hagar’s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood)

Pauline Hopkins

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

The Awakening And Other Stories

Kate Chopin

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

Sappho’s Immortal Daughters

Margaret Williamson

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

Camilla Picture of Youth

Fanny Burney

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

The Book of Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

The Story of an African Farm

Olive Schreiner

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Classics

Women Who Did Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914

Angelique Richardson

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

My Life, My Body

Marge Piercy

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#10

Frances Burney A Literary Life

J. Thaddeus

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#11

Loose Change Three Women of the Sixties

Sara Davidson

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#12

The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman

Sue Townsend

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#13

American Fictions

Elizabeth Hardwick

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#14

The Curse of Caste, Or, The Slave Bride A Rediscovered African American Novel

Julia C. Collins

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#15

The Color of Tenderness

Geni Guimarães

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#16

A Room of One’s Own And, Three Guineas

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#17

Sweat

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#18

Hardboiled & High Heeled The Woman Detective in Popular Culture

Linda Mizejewski

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#19

Follow My Footprints Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction

Sylvia Barack Fishman

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#20

The Eleusinian Gate Lost Tales of Kaphtu

Richard Purtill

Themes: Women's Studies • Classics • Social Science

#21

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Themes: Women's Studies • Classics • Social Science

#22

Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon Himalayan Foothill Folktales

Kirin Narayan

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#23

Fearless Girls Wise Women and Beloved Sisters Heroines In Folktales From Around The World

Jane Yolen

Themes: Women's Studies • Literary Criticism • Social Science

#24

Toyboy Diaries

Wendy Salisbury

Themes: Women's Studies • Classics • Social Science

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Women's Studies, Literary Criticism, Classics — the same threads that run through Emma by Jane Austen. Among the authors featured: Pauline Hopkins, Kate Chopin, Margaret Williamson, Fanny Burney, and others.