# Books like Middlemarch

**10** books similar to *Middlemarch* by George Eliot (Mystery · grades 11–12), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

**Themes:** young women, married people, city and town life, social life and customs
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## Similar books

- [Jude the Obscure](https://readinglist.school/book/jude-the-obscure) by Thomas Hardy _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of social life and customs, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [Mansfield Park](https://readinglist.school/book/mansfield-park) by Jane Austen _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of social life and customs, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [Selected Stories](https://readinglist.school/book/selected-stories) by Katherine Mansfield _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of social life and customs, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [Sweat](https://readinglist.school/book/sweat) by Lynn Nottage _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of city and town life, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [The Taming of the Shrew](https://readinglist.school/book/the-taming-of-the-shrew) by William Shakespeare _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of married people, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?](https://readinglist.school/book/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf) by Edward Albee _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of married people, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [How to Survive Your Murder](https://readinglist.school/book/how-to-survive-your-murder) by Danielle Valentine _(Grades 9–12)_ — Same genre (Mystery) and overlapping grades (9–12).
- [Not Quite Dead Yet](https://readinglist.school/book/not-quite-dead-yet) by Holly Jackson _(Grades 7–12)_ — Same genre (Mystery) and overlapping grades (7–12).
- [That's Not My Name](https://readinglist.school/book/thats-not-my-name) by Megan Lally _(Grades 9–12)_ — Same genre (Mystery) and overlapping grades (9–12).
- [The Agathas](https://readinglist.school/book/the-agathas) by Kathleen Glasgow _(Grades 9–12)_ — Same genre (Mystery) and overlapping grades (9–12).

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