If you liked
Books like I Capture the Castle
Loved I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from young adult, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
Young adult fiction is where many readers encounter their most important books. This list spans 1935–2017 and includes 3 marked as essential reading in young adult.
10 books · ranked
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The Hunger Games
A girl volunteers for a televised fight to the death to save her sister; a propulsive, sharp dystopian thriller.
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2
The Fault in Our Stars
Two teenagers with cancer fall in love; funny and heartbreaking without ever being saccharine.
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The Hate U Give
A teenager witnesses a police shooting and finds her voice; urgent, powerful and humane.
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4
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional record of a successful and talented young woman's descent into madness.
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Alanna
"From now on, I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight. And so yound Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring
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The Ugly American
This book is a fictionally written depiction of America^s failed foreign policy, tactics and blunders in a country depicted as an area similar to Viet Nam. The journalist author was entrenched in the
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The Yearling
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as h
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8
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the
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9
A Bear Called Paddington
Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington, a most endearing bear from Darkest Peru on a railway platform in London. A sign hanging around his neck said, "Please look after this bear. Thank you" So that
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The box of delights, or When the wolves were running
Kay finds himself involved in a fantastic adventure when he becomes guardian of the mysterious Box of Delights.