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Loved Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from romance, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy · 1874 · Romance

    Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gen

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    The Return of the Native

    Thomas Hardy · 1878 · Romance

    The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one wom

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    Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

    Machado de Assis · 1881 · Romance

    Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princípio como folhetim, de março a dezembro de 1880, na Revista Brasileira, para, no ano seguinte, ser publi

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    Mademoiselle Fifi

    Guy de Maupassant · 1882 · Romance

    The title story of this collection is, like many of the others, set during the Franco-Prussian war. As in so many of Maupassant’s stories he explores class barriers and looks at the contrasts between

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    Ragged Dick

    Jr. Horatio Alger · 1868 · Romance

    "Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evide

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    Germinal

    Émile Zola · 1885 · Romance

    The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.E

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    Heidi

    Johanna Spyri · 1885 · Romance

    The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. One of the most loved classics ...both

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    At Fault

    Kate Chopin · 1890 · Romance

    At Fault is Kate Chopin’s early novel about a young widow seeking to reconcile her own needs with those of the people she is responsible for. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.katechopin.org/at-fault/ --

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    Beatrice

    H. Rider Haggard · 1890 · Romance

    The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly stil

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    The little minister

    J. M. Barrie · 1890 · Romance

    Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., David Belasco and Sam S. and Lee Shubert, proprietors and managers, direction of Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), L. Stoddard Taylor, resident manager. The Ben Greet P

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