Read-alikes and related books

Books like Emma

Looking for read-alikes for Emma by Jane Austen? These 24 titles overlap in Alternative History, Victorian, Southern, and Satire and overall literary texture.

Alternative History Victorian Southern Satire Coming of Age Classics Literary Historical Romance Fiction

Top related books to Emma

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

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Themes: Victorian • Satire • Coming of Age

Mosquitoes

William Faulkner

Themes: Southern • Satire • Coming of Age

Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Themes: Southern • Satire • Coming of Age

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Themes: Victorian • Satire • Classics

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Themes: Victorian • Satire • Classics

The Confidence-Man His Masquerade

Herman Melville

Themes: Southern • Satire • Classics

Jane Eyre (Painted Edition)

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: Victorian • Coming of Age • Classics

Daughter of Fortune A Novel

Isabel Allende

Themes: Victorian • Coming of Age • Classics

Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë

Themes: Victorian • Coming of Age • Classics

#10

The Go-between — L. P. Hartley

L.P. Hartley

Themes: Victorian • Coming of Age • Classics

#11

Burmese Days — George. Orwell

George Orwell

Themes: Alternative History • Satire • Classics

#12

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson

Themes: Southern • Coming of Age • Classics

#13

Savannah Breeze

Mary Kay Andrews

Themes: Southern • Satire • Coming of Age

#14

The Absentee

Maria Edgeworth

Themes: Satire • Coming of Age • Classics

#15

Tono-Bungay

H. G. Wells

Themes: Victorian • Satire • Classics

#16

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Themes: Southern • Coming of Age • Classics

#17

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

Themes: Satire • Coming of Age • Classics

#18

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Themes: Southern • Coming of Age • Classics

#19

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Themes: Southern • Coming of Age • Classics

#20

Slaughterhouse 5 Vintage War

Kurt Vonnegut

Themes: Satire • Coming of Age • Classics

#21

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Themes: Victorian • Coming of Age • Classics

#22

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Themes: Victorian • Coming of Age • Classics

#23

Lady Whistledown Strikes Back

Julia Quinn

Themes: Victorian • Satire • Literary

#24

Blue Asylum A Novel

Kathy Hepinstall

Themes: Victorian • Southern • Literary

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Alternative History, Victorian, Southern — the same threads that run through Emma by Jane Austen. Among the authors featured: Jane Austen, William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, Charles Dickens, and others.