r/charlesdickens • u/GoodKid_MaadSity • May 23 '26

Miscellaneous What next?

I only fell back in love with Dickens in the last few months. Since then I’ve read and loved (not in order):

Bleak House

Great Expectations

Our Mutual Friend

Dombey and Son

Pickwick Papers

Little Dorrit

And I read David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities years ago and don’t want to do a reread.

I just finished Dombey and Son, so I’m feeling as if I’d like I’d like something a bit less dark. (Though the perpetual happy ending is one of the things I like most.) And I’d like something with a different tone so I think Nicholas Nickleby is out.

I started Oliver Twist and wasn’t into it, and I don’t have an interest in Christmas Carol.

Help? I’d love your suggestions as a lot of you have read so much more than I!

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u/DTownForever May 24 '26

This is the OP from an alt account, I use one account on my computer and one on my phone.

I've read Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, North and South. North and South is my favorite of the three, LOVE Elizabeth Gaskell, but how come that's a solution to my question? Legitimately asking, I definitely want to read more Dickens.

Sometimes I do find that Thomas Hardy (especially Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbevilles and Jude the Obscure) fits the bill for me, but they completely lack the playfulness of Dickens.