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Books like Far from the Madding Crowd

Loved Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from romance, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Rose in Bloom

    Louisa May Alcott · 1876 · Romance

    In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the "Aunt Hill" after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them.

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    Ragged Dick

    Jr. Horatio Alger · 1868 · Romance

    "Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evide

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    Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

    Machado de Assis · 1881 · Romance

    Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princípio como folhetim, de março a dezembro de 1880, na Revista Brasileira, para, no ano seguinte, ser publi

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    Mademoiselle Fifi

    Guy de Maupassant · 1882 · Romance

    The title story of this collection is, like many of the others, set during the Franco-Prussian war. As in so many of Maupassant’s stories he explores class barriers and looks at the contrasts between

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    Germinal

    Émile Zola · 1885 · Romance

    The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.E

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    Heidi

    Johanna Spyri · 1885 · Romance

    The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. One of the most loved classics ...both

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    Framley Parsonage

    Anthony Trollope · 1861 · Romance

    The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his f

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    Age of chivalry; or, King Arthur and his knights

    Thomas Bulfinch · 1858 · Romance

    Annotated, hyperlinked edition of Bulfinch's Legends of King Arthur.

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    At Fault

    Kate Chopin · 1890 · Romance

    At Fault is Kate Chopin’s early novel about a young widow seeking to reconcile her own needs with those of the people she is responsible for. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.katechopin.org/at-fault/ --

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    Beatrice

    H. Rider Haggard · 1890 · Romance

    The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly stil

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