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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.

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  1. 1

    The spy who loved me

    Ian Fleming · 1960 · Romance

    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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    Loving

    Danielle Steel · 1980 · Romance

    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 · 1936 · Romance

    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

    Willa Cather · 1935 · Romance

    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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    The Free Fishers

    John Buchan · 1934 · Romance

    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

    Isabel Allende · 1987 · Romance

    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

    Jane Austen · 1925 · Romance

    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

    Sam McBratney · 1994 · Romance

    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

  9. 9

    Bridget Jones's Diary

    Helen Fielding · 1996 · Romance

    A single Londoner's diary of resolutions, cigarettes and Mr Wrong; the book that launched a genre.

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    Aaron's Rod

    D. H. Lawrence · 1922 · Romance

    An amateur musician leaves a coal mining town in the English Midlands, going first to London and later to Florence.

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