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Books like The Great Gatsby
A glittering, champagne-soaked tragedy about the hollow pursuit of an impossible past. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Great Gatsby.
- glamorous
- melancholic
- feverish
- hollow
- opulent
- 01
This Side of Paradise
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, melancholic portrait of a generation waking up from the intoxicating dream of youth to find themselves adrift.
- 02
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, slow-motion trainwreck of a marriage drowning in champagne and squandered potential.
- 03
Winter Dreams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A glittering, heartbreaking meditation on the beautiful, hollow illusions we chase in the name of love and ambition.
- 04
Tender is the Night
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A sun-drenched, tragic portrait of beautiful people slowly destroying each other on the French Riviera.
- 05
Revolutionary road
Richard Yates
A beautiful, remorseless portrait of a marriage suffocating under the opulent desolation of 1950s suburban life.
- 06
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
A slow-motion tragedy of ambition and moral cowardice that dissects the darkest, most desperate corners of the American Dream.
- 07
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
A devastatingly elegant dissection of unspoken desires and the crushing weight of polite society.
- 08
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1871
A heavy, atmospheric descent into the suffocating grip of public shame and the quiet rebellion of a woman who refuses to be broken by it.
- 09
Hudson River bracketed
Edith Wharton
A sweeping, melancholic exploration of a young writer's awakening and the heavy, beautiful cost of artistic and romantic entanglement.
- 10
Daisy Miller
Henry James
A sun-drenched, gossipy stroll through European high society that slowly tightens into a tragic clash of innocence and rigid tradition.
- 11
Jazz
Toni Morrison
A syncopated, intoxicating plunge into the vibrant chaos of 1920s Harlem and the haunting echoes of the past.
- 12
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett
A sparkling, gin-soaked romp through 1930s New York where the banter is as deadly as the bullets.
