Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Bell

24 titles for readers of The Bell by Iris Murdoch, selected for shared themes: GAY MEN_FICTION, MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION, FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL, and ENGLAND_FICTION.

GAY MEN_FICTION MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL ENGLAND_FICTION BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Top related books to The Bell

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with The Bell — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Classics)

Anne Bronte

Themes: MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION • ENGLAND_FICTION • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Amelia (Penguin Classics)

Henry Fielding

Themes: MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION • ENGLAND_FICTION • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

20th Century Ulysses

James Joyce

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

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

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

Jane Eyre (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION • ENGLAND_FICTION • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Girls in Their Married Bliss — Edna O’Brien

Edna O'Brien

Themes: MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • ENGLAND_FICTION

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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

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

Wilkie Collins

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

Jane Eyre: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Everyman’s Library Classics Series)

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION • ENGLAND_FICTION • BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

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Mrs Dalloway Reader

Virginia Woolf

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

#11

Women in Love — D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

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

#12

Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded V4: The Complete Novels Of Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson

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

#13

Sandcastle

Iris Murdoch

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

#14

Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (The World’s Classics)

Joseph Conrad

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

#15

The Accidental: A novel

Ali Smith

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • ENGLAND_FICTION

#16

Kipps (Penguin Classics)

H. G. Wells

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

#17

The Lost Girl — D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

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

#18

Pride and Prejudice Prequel to “Pemberley”.

Jane Austen

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

#19

The Go-Between (Penguin Classics) — L. P. Hartley

L.P. Hartley

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

#20

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

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

#21

A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon

Themes: FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL • ENGLAND_FICTION

#22

Three Men in a Boat To Say Nothing of the Dog!

Jerome K. Jerome

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

#23

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

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

#24

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

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

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Bell by Iris Murdoch — spanning GAY MEN_FICTION, MARRIED PEOPLE_FICTION, FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL and featuring authors such as Anne Bronte, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Emily Brontë, and others.