If you like this then you might like that...Part I (Anna Karenina, Lolita and Tess of the d'Urbervilles)

I've been wanting to do a suggestion post for a long time because I really enjoy those myself.
If you're not familiar with the concept, yet:
I'm going to suggest two or more books that share a theme or have something particular in common, e.g. the genre, the style, the protagonist's personality traits etc.
If you've read one of the suggestions, chances are you'd be interested in the other one(s) as well.
Or maybe you'll even find something new among them that you like.

I will only suggest books I already read and add more one at a time, whenever I come across one that would be a match.

 Here we go with part I:

Tragic Heroine / Female Adultery:
 
Tolstoi
''Anna Karenina''

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Tragic story set in Russia about a married woman, Anna, who falls in love with a cavalry officer. She leaves her family in favour of her affair and by that, decides her fate of a fallen woman and her social downfall.

Gustave Flaubert

''Madame Bovary''

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Set in Northern France, Emma marries the respectable but boring Charles Bovary to escape life in the countryside. Unsatisfied with her marriage, she begins various affairs.





 Theodor Fontane
''Effie Briest''

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17-year old Effi marries Baron Geert von Instetten, who is double her age and formerly courted her mother. Unhappy and suffering from solitude, she begins an affair with Major Crampas. It comes to a duel between the men and Effi's social and economical downfall.





Literature about Pedophilia:
  
Nabokov
''Lolita''

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Lolita is the story about Humbert Humbert, an adult man, who falls in love with a 12-year old girl. Through chance and perversion he becomes her legal guardian (although never on paper) and begins a sexual relationship with her.




Nabokov
''The Enchanter''

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The Enchanter was Nabokov's trial run for Lolita. The theme is the same but it's nowhere near the level of perversion. It's a lighter, shorter and not so expansive version.

 Sören Kierkegaard
''Diary of a Seducer''

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A chapter from ''Either / Or''.

The protagonist stalks a young girl he finds utterly inferior to himself until she falls in love with him. At this point the 'seducer' refrains from further advances.

Peasantry with a strong comic as well as tragic element / Literary Realism:

Thomas Hardy                                                                           
''Tess of the D'Urbervilles''                                                  

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Tess Durbeyfield is being sent to what is believed a noble relative
Alec d'Urberville. He wants to marry her whereas Tess falls in love
with the farmer and parson's son Angel.

  Gottfried Keller
  ''Village Romeo and Juliet''

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Sali and Vrenchen, the children of formerly friendly but now feuding families, fall in love with each other. The families ruin themselves financially and socially over the feud. To escape their families, the pair flees so they can be together.