Books like Middlemarch

Middlemarch by George Eliot reads as immersive, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 1905

Shares the ambition + collapse thread

69% genome match

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Shares the collapse + ambition thread

69% genome match

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 1853

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

70% genome match

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Shares the quiet + collapse thread

83% genome match

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 1856

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1891

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 1860

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · 1875

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Shares the collapse + vornate thread

77% genome match

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham · 1944

Shares the quiet + collapse thread

69% genome match

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

Shares the quiet + vornate thread

69% genome match

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

Shares the ambition + quiet thread

72% genome match