Books like “Wuthering Heights”

What to read after “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Gothic
- Byronic Hero
An orphan becomes a governess at the brooding Thornfield Hall. A bond grows between her and its stern master, but the house hides a dangerous secret that threatens the life she is beginning to hope for.
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 1938
From the same world: “Gothic”
A shy young woman marries the widowed Maxim de Winter and arrives at Manderley, his grand estate by the sea. There she is measured against his first wife, the beautiful Rebecca, whose presence lingers in every room, in the servants' loyalty and in a secret nobody will speak.
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Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier · 1936
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Windswept Moors
- Gothic
After her mother's death, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn on the bleak Bodmin Moor. Her uncle keeps the inn closed to travellers and answers to dangerous men from the coast. Mary must work out what her one remaining family is hiding before the moor and its secrets close over her.
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The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry · 2016
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Windswept Moors
- Gothic
In 1893 the newly widowed Cora Seaborne moves to a village on the Essex marshes, drawn there by reports of a winged serpent. A keen amateur naturalist, she befriends the local vicar, whose faith is tested as the rumours spread, while the doubtful and the devout hunt for signs. A slow, atmospheric story of belief and desire.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Windswept Moors
- Gothic
Legend says a demonic hound haunts the Baskerville family on the Dartmoor moors. Holmes and Watson look into the death of Sir Charles and protect his heir from whatever stalks the fog-bound landscape.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy · 1874
Same genre: “Romance”
- Windswept Moors
Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm and runs it herself. Three men want her: the steady shepherd Gabriel Oak, the wealthy neighbour Boldwood, and the dashing soldier Troy. Her choice and its consequences reshape all their lives in the farming country of Wessex.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë · 1848
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Gothic
A young widow, Helen Graham, moves into the half-ruined Wildfell Hall and keeps to herself, refusing to explain her past. The farmer Gilbert Markham falls for her, then hears rumours about her and her son. Helen's hidden diary slowly reveals the marriage she fled and why she lives in hiding.
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe · 1794
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Gothic
- Star-Crossed Lovers
After her parents die, Emily St. Aubert is left to the care of an aunt who marries an Italian nobleman. Taken to the gloomy castle of Udolpho, she is surrounded by unexplained sounds, sealed rooms and sinister men, while she tries to keep her love and her safety.
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818
From the same world: “Gothic”
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of life and assembles a living creature from the dead, then abandons it in horror. Lonely and rejected, the creature turns on its maker, and both are drawn into a cycle of guilt and vengeance.
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The Beetle
Richard Marsh · 1897
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Gothic
- Revenge
A strange, insect-like creature arrives in London bent on revenge against a member of Parliament, and its powers reach into the lives of everyone near him. The story is told through several witnesses who each encounter the being and try to stop it.
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Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin · 1820
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Gothic
- Byronic Hero
A scholar finds a manuscript telling of Melmoth, a man who centuries earlier traded his soul for knowledge and an unnaturally long life. Doomed to wander the earth, he appears to people in their worst moments and offers them the chance to take on his burden.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886
From the same world: “Gothic”
- Gothic
- Morally Grey Character
A respected London doctor is oddly close to a violent, mysterious man named Hyde. When a friend investigates the link between them, he uncovers a scientific experiment that set loose a darker self.