Books › The Story of an Hour › Books like it
If you loved
Books like The Story of an Hour
A breathless, devastating glimpse into the intoxicating and fatal taste of sudden freedom. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Story of an Hour.
- claustrophobic
- breathless
- expansive
- tragic
- 01
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
A languid, sun-drenched exploration of a woman's intoxicating and ultimately isolating realization of her own desires.
- 02
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1995
A chilling, claustrophobic descent into the mind of a woman trapped by the very walls meant to heal her.
- 03
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce · 2003
A masterclass in psychological suspense that stretches a single, fatal second into a desperate lifetime of hope.
- 04
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
A claustrophobic descent into the cracks of a seemingly perfect marriage, culminating in a quiet but earth-shattering rebellion.
- 05
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin · 1977
A lush, dreamlike descent into bohemian decadence and the unapologetic depths of female desire.
- 06
Henry and June
Anais Nin · 1986
An uncensored, deeply intimate plunge into a year of bohemian passion, sexual awakening, and tangled desires.
- 07
The hours
Michael Cunningham · 1998
A luminous, deeply interior meditation on the quiet tragedies and fleeting beauties of a single ordinary day.
- 08
A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner
A chilling, gossipy descent into the decaying heart of the Old South, where secrets fester behind closed doors.
- 09
The necklace
Guy de Maupassant
A sharp, elegant descent from fleeting glamour into a lifetime of grinding, ironic regret.
- 10
Maggie, a girl of the streets
Stephen Crane · 1896
A bleak, unflinching plunge into the deterministic crush of the nineteenth-century slums.
- 11
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
A fiery, foundational treatise that dismantles the gilded cage of 18th-century femininity with sharp reason and unapologetic passion.
- 12
Therese Raquin
Zola, Emile · 1886
A claustrophobic, feverish descent into the psychological rot that follows a crime of passion.
