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Books like American notes

Loved American notes by Charles Dickens? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    Charlotte's Web

    E.B. White · 1952 · Children's

    A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.

  2. 2

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 · Children's

    A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.

  3. 3

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    J.K. Rowling · 1997 · Children's

    An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.

  4. 4

    A Final Reckoning

    G. A. Henty · 1800 · Children's

    A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brus

  5. 5

    The Alhambra

    Washington Irving · 1800 · Children's

    Verhalen over het gebouwencomplex in Granada, dat eigendom was van de laatste islamitische vorsten in Spanje.

  6. 6

    The Night Before Christmas

    Clement Clarke Moore · 1857 · Children's

    A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

  7. 7

    What Katy Did

    Susan Coolidge · 1873 · Children's

    Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin H

  8. 8

    The Hunting of the Snark

    Lewis Carroll · 1876 · Children's

    A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.

  9. 9

    Under the Lilacs

    Louisa May Alcott · 1878 · Children's

    Ben and his trained dog, Sancho, run away from the circus and soon find a warm welcome in a kind community where spirited games are played. Theatricals and imaginative pageantry are all part of the fu

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    Winnie-the-Pooh

    A.A. Milne · 1926 · Children's

    A bear of very little brain and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; timeless and quietly wise.

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