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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.
Romance takes love, desire and connection seriously as subjects and does justice to their complexity. This list spans 1922–1996.
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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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3
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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4
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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8
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.