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Books Like Wuthering Heights
Best books to read after Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is a Gothic masterpiece about destructive, obsessive love on the Yorkshire moors. These recommendations extend the experience through other Gothic romance novels and through fiction that shares Wuthering Heights's interest in passion, revenge, and class.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The companion Brontë novel, published the same year — Charlotte's Gothic romance shares Emily's interest in brooding heroes, isolated houses, and the female protagonist's struggle for independence, but resolves in a more affirmative direction.
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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The twentieth-century Gothic romance that most directly inherits Wuthering Heights's architecture: a brooding hero with a secret, a decaying house that seems to have its own presence, a woman who must discover what really happened. One of the most gripping novels of the twentieth century.
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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
Du Maurier's earlier Gothic novel about a young woman who comes to live at her aunt's remote Cornwall inn and discovers that her uncle is a wrecker — shares Wuthering Heights's wild landscape and its sense that morally ambiguous men are inseparable from dangerous places.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Rhys's postcolonial prequel to Jane Eyre, which gives the madwoman in the attic her own story — a Gothic text that shares Wuthering Heights's interest in what happens to those who are destroyed by the passionate obsessions of others.
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Possession
by A.S. Byatt
Byatt's novel about two contemporary literary scholars who discover a secret love affair between two Victorian poets — a novel that engages directly with the Brontë legacy and with the Victorian Gothic tradition that Wuthering Heights exemplifies.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë's 1848 novel about a woman who escapes her abusive marriage — the most morally explicit of the Brontë sisters' novels, and a direct response to the romanticization of violent, dominating men that Wuthering Heights has sometimes been taken to celebrate.
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Flowers in the Attic
by V.C. Andrews
Andrews's Gothic novel about four children imprisoned in their grandmother's attic — the popular Gothic tradition that descends from Wuthering Heights, stripped of its literary ambitions but sharing its core fascination with obsessive love, hidden secrets, and gothic architecture.
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Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
Flynn's thriller about a woman who survived the murder of her family as a child — a contemporary dark-psychological novel that inherits Wuthering Heights's interest in violence, obsession, and the way terrible events in the past shape everything that follows.
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