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Books like Mathilda
Loved Mathilda by Mary Shelley? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from romance, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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1
The spy who loved me
Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding
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2
Loving
Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of glamour, endless parties, and luxury among America's top celebrities -- simply because she was the beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Da
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the cent
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Lucy Gayheart
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world.
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5
The Free Fishers
Set in a bleak Yorkshire hamlet, this is a tale of treason and romance. Anthony Lammas, Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that threatens the country.
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Eva Luna
The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
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Lady Susan
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted no
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Guess How Much I Love You
Welcome the family classic with an elegant, refreshed cover — the quintessential picture book, just waiting to be shared. Sometimes, when you love someone very, very much, you want to find a way of de
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9
Bridget Jones's Diary
A single Londoner's diary of resolutions, cigarettes and Mr Wrong; the book that launched a genre.
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10
Aaron's Rod
An amateur musician leaves a coal mining town in the English Midlands, going first to London and later to Florence.