Books like “Crazy Rich Asians”

What to read after “Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
Sarah MacLean · 2010
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners”
- Comedy of Manners
Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has spent her life being proper and unremarkable. She draws up a list of scandalous things she longs to try and asks Gabriel St. John, the notorious Marquess of Ralston, to help her. As he escorts her through each escapade, an old acquaintance deepens into love.
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners”
- Comedy of Manners
- Forbidden Love
Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland in old New York society when May's cousin, the Countess Olenska, returns from Europe after leaving her husband. Newland and the Countess are drawn to each other, but the rules of their world demand that he marry May and hide what he feels.
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The Grand Sophy
Georgette Heyer · 1950
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners”
- Comedy of Manners
When Sophy Stanton-Lacy comes to stay with her cousins in London, she finds the household tangled in debts, broken engagements and bad tempers. Cheerful and managing, she sets out to arrange everyone's happiness, clashing with her proud cousin Charles along the way.
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners”
- Comedy of Manners
Elizabeth Bennet has little patience for the proud Mr Darcy, whose fortune and manners make him an easy target for her wit. Their sparring slowly gives way to a truer understanding as family scandal and society threaten to keep them apart.
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Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners” and “Satire”
- Comedy of Manners
- Satire
Practical Flora Poste, newly orphaned, moves in with her gloomy rural relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she sets about tidying their tangled lives, one absurd cousin at a time, in a comic send-up of romantic country novels.
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners” and “Satire”
- Comedy of Manners
- Satire
Becky Sharp, clever and poor, leaves school determined to climb London society by any means available. Beside her is her gentle friend Amelia, whose love for a vain soldier leads her toward ruin. The novel follows the two women through marriages, debts and reversals, always with an ironic eye on ambition.
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Soulless
Gail Carriger · 2009
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners”
- Comedy of Manners
Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster with no soul, which makes her immune to the supernatural. When a rogue vampire attacks her in steampunk London and a werewolf lord is sent to investigate, the two uncover a plot against the city's vampires and werewolves—and a mutual attraction neither of them expected.
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Bombardier Yossarian wants to survive the war and go home, but every attempt to be grounded runs into a rule that answers itself: to be excused he must ask, and asking proves he is sane. Around him, officers profit and comrades die.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1884
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
A boy fleeing his abusive father and a man escaping slavery travel together down the Mississippi on a raft. Their friendship grows as they meet swindlers and feuds along the way, and Huck must decide what he believes. A comic, humane adventure about freedom and conscience.
10
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love”
- Forbidden Love
When nineteen-year-old Jordan and her boyfriend have nowhere else to go, they move in with his father, Pike. Sharing the house, she finds in the guarded older man the steadiness her life has lacked, and they both fight an attraction that is off-limits by every rule that matters.
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love”
- Forbidden Love
A public spat between the US president's son Alex and Britain's Prince Henry forces their handlers to stage a friendship for the cameras. What starts as reluctant damage control turns into late-night texts and a secret romance that neither man can keep hidden for long.
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Corrupt
Penelope Douglas · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love”
- Forbidden Love
Erika has crushed on Michael Crist, her best friend's older brother, for years. After a night that ends in scandal, she joins the same elite university as Michael and his friends, who hold her responsible for a past wrong. Their revenge turns into a dangerous game neither can control.