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Books like Summer

Explore 24 books like Summer by Edith Wharton — a handpicked selection united by Gilded Age, Feminist, Literary, and Historical.

Top related books to Summer

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

The Manhattan Girls A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends

Gill Paul

Themes: Gilded Age • Feminist • Historical

The Heiress Hunt

Joanna Shupe

Themes: Gilded Age • Literary • Historical

The School of Mirrors A Novel

Eva Stachniak

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

Things I Want My Daughters to Know A Novel

Elizabeth Noble

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

The Winthrop Agreement A Novel

Alice Sherman Simpson

Themes: Gilded Age • Literary • Historical

The White Princess

Philippa Gregory

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

Miss Nume of Japan A Japanese-American Romance

Onoto Watanna

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

Sisters of the Resistance A Novel of Catherine Dior’s Paris Spy Network

Christine Wells

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

Switchboard Soldiers A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U. S. Army Signal Corps During World War I

Jennifer Chiaverini

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#10

Beasts of a Little Land A Novel

Juhea Kim

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#11

Unti Collection of Bridgerton Epilogues LP

Julia Quinn

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#12

The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#13

Plain Bad Heroines A Novel

Emily M. Danforth

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#14

Rapture

Emily Maguire

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#15

Ines of My Soul A Novel

Isabel Allende

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#16

The Empress A Novel

Gigi Griffis

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#17

The Women’s March A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

Jennifer Chiaverini

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#18

The Stolen Lady A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa

Laura Morelli

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#19

Tidelands

Philippa Gregory

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#20

Dulcinea A Novel

Ana Veciana-Suarez

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#21

Suddenly You

Lisa Kleypas

Themes: Gilded Age • Literary • Historical

#22

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows Feminine Pursuits

Olivia Waite

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#23

The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After

Julia Quinn

Themes: Feminist • Literary • Historical

#24

The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: Gilded Age • Literary • Historical

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Gilded Age, Feminist, Literary — the same threads that run through Summer by Edith Wharton. Among the authors featured: Gill Paul, Joanna Shupe, Eva Stachniak, Elizabeth Noble, and others.