Do you like Dickens but have read most all his work? Fear not. Time Magazine lists some Dickens-y books, here.
From said list...
4. The Woman in White (1860), by Wilkie Collins
The first sensation novel, and one of my favorite novels of all time, this stolen-identity saga by one of Dickens’ closest collaborators and protégés draws on split-narrative techniques to piece together the mystery of its title character. After appearing in the road one night to a poor artist, Walter Hartright, the elusive woman in white crosses paths with Walter’s new patrons, half-sisters Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe, as they fall prey to the schemes of Laura’s nasty new husband, Sir Percival Glyde. One insane asylum, mustachioed Italian villain, moated estate, secret society, illegitimate child and falsified tombstone later, the novel arrives at its artful conclusion. It could have been so bad — if it weren’t so good.
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