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Hypergamy - marrying a spouse of higher caste or status than oneself (c)
Please add fiction that meets one or more following criteria:
- the heroine marrying a man who financially secure her;
- the heroine dating and marrying up to the higher circle;
- the ugly duckling transformation;
- rediscovering traditional femininity;
- Eliza Doolittle-like stories (woman from the lower class is learning to behave herself among the aristocracy).
Hypergamy and leveling up can be the main plotline ("Cinderella" by Charles Perrault) or not ("Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier), the story can have a happy ending ("Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen) or not ("The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen).
Please, try to add mostly classics.
There is a separate list of the same topic for self-help and how-to books and manuals, memoirs, biographies, etc: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Please add fiction that meets one or more following criteria:
- the heroine marrying a man who financially secure her;
- the heroine dating and marrying up to the higher circle;
- the ugly duckling transformation;
- rediscovering traditional femininity;
- Eliza Doolittle-like stories (woman from the lower class is learning to behave herself among the aristocracy).
Hypergamy and leveling up can be the main plotline ("Cinderella" by Charles Perrault) or not ("Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier), the story can have a happy ending ("Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen) or not ("The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen).
Please, try to add mostly classics.
There is a separate list of the same topic for self-help and how-to books and manuals, memoirs, biographies, etc: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
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Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,282,136 ratings
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
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Jen Wang (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 120,698 ratings
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Rebecca
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The Little Mermaid
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3.98 avg rating — 29,962 ratings
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A Duke in Shining Armor
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The Duchess Deal (Girl Meets Duke, #1)
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Tessa Dare (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 67,056 ratings
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Beauty
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The Husband Trap
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Tracy Anne Warren (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 4,892 ratings
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Als begeerte ontbrandt
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3.88 avg rating — 2,002 ratings
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How Not to Drown
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Jaimee Wriston (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Skyscraper Cinderella
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Den of Vipers
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K.A. Knight (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 215,980 ratings
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The Ugly Duckling
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Jerry Pinkney (Adapter, Illustrator)
4.12 avg rating — 43,205 ratings
score: 97,
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The Devil Is a Marquess (Rescued from Ruin, #4)
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Elisa Braden (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 6,040 ratings
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The Glass Slipper (Cinderella, #3)
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 9,451 ratings
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An American Tragedy
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Happily Ever After (Bonus Scene) (Cinderella, #3.1)
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Wild Swans
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Anne Yvonne Gilbert (Illustrator)
4.27 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
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The Duke of Diamonds (A Lady to Suit, #1)
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Emily Windsor (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,986 ratings
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Coerce (Death in Bloom, #1)
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Candice M. Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
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Unmask Me If You Can (The Survivors, #4)
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Shana Galen (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
score: 94,
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Sheltered
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Alexa Riley (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,354 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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A Duke a Dozen (The Survivors, #6)
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Shana Galen (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 718 ratings
score: 93,
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Praise (Salacious Players Club, #1)
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Sara Cate (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 230,864 ratings
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Helter Skelter
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3.89 avg rating — 2,718 ratings
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Snake (Serpents of Cinderhart Academy #3)
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Logan Fox (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
score: 92,
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Amethyst (Chase Family Series #1)
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Lauren Royal (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 6,945 ratings
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Miss Don't Touch Me
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3.62 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Dynasty (Boys of Winter, #1)
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Sheridan Anne (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 12,590 ratings
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Snow, Glass, Apples
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 14,893 ratings
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Theirs Forever (Mafia Ménage Trilogy Book 4)
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Julia Sykes (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Name of the Game
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3.91 avg rating — 459 ratings
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1 person voted
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Deity (Boys of Winter, #4)
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Sheridan Anne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 7,125 ratings
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A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (The Contract With God Trilogy #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 13,687 ratings
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Queen of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, #4)
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Caroline Peckham (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 21,024 ratings
score: 88,
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Kings of Anarchy (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep #3)
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Caroline Peckham (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 23,063 ratings
score: 87,
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Her Royal Master (Master Me, #1)
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Renee Rose (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Prince Charming (Cinderella, #2)
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 9,707 ratings
score: 85,
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Stroke of Midnight (Cinderella, #1)
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 14,980 ratings
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Wicked Queen (Blackmoor Heirs, #4)
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Ivy Thorn (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 866 ratings
score: 83,
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A Court of Thorns and Roses Box Set (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1-3)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 2,289 ratings
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42 books ·
8 voters ·
list created July 16th, 2020
by Halina Hetman (votes) .
Tags:
age-gap, aristocracy, aristocrats, class, class-issues, dating, debutantes, downton-abbey, gender, gender-and-sexuality, gender-identity, gender-roles, hierarchy, high-society, income, inspirational, interracial-romance, love, marriage, money, poverty, relationships, rich, romance, royalty, sexuality, society, upper-class, wealth, womanhood, women, womens
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