Read-alikes and related books

Books like Romola

Across ITALY_FICTION, FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL, FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL, and BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Romola by George Eliot.

Top related books to Romola

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

Mrs Dalloway Reader

Virginia Woolf

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Wuthering Heights (Oxford World’s Classics Hardcovers)

Emily Brontë

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

20th Century Ulysses

James Joyce

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Way In The World: A Novel — V.S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

Women in Love — D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

A Thread of Grace: A Novel

Mary Doria Russell

Themes: ITALY_FICTION • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

The Woman in White Illustrated, etc. A NEW EDITION. VOL. III.

Wilkie Collins

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Bronte

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#10

Sandcastle

Iris Murdoch

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#11

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#12

The Old Curiosity Shop And Reprinted Pieces

Charles Dickens

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#13

A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies: A novel

Ellen Cooney

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

#14

Framley Parsonage (The Barsetshire Novels)

Anthony Trollope

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#15

Patricia Grace

Themes: ITALY_FICTION • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

#16

The Passion Dream Book: A Novel

Whitney Otto

Themes: ITALY_FICTION • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

#17

The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

#18

Everyman

Philip Roth

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#19

The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#20

Family

J. California Cooper

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

#21

Girls in Their Married Bliss — Edna O’Brien

Edna O'Brien

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#22

A Room With A View

E. M. Forster

Themes: ITALY_FICTION • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#23

Four Freedoms: A Novel

John Crowley

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL

#24

Pride and Prejudice, Annotated (Teen Classics)

Jane Austen

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Romola by George Eliot. Connected by ITALY_FICTION, FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL, FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL. Authors featured include Virginia Woolf, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Bronte, James Joyce, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.