Books like The Age of Innocence

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.

Liked The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton? Here's what readers who loved it picked up next.

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (1908) · 3.91★
Howards End by E.M. Forster (1910) · 3.95★
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881) · 3.76★
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1901) · 3.81★
Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871) · 3.93★
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945) · 3.99★
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847) · 3.76★
Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817) · 4.13★
Emma by Jane Austen (1815) · 3.99★
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891) · 3.77★
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) · 3.78★
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856) · 3.64★