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Books like The Alhambra

Loved The Alhambra by Washington Irving? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    Charlotte's Web

    E.B. White · 1952 · Children's

    A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.

  2. 2

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 · Children's

    A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.

  3. 3

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    J.K. Rowling · 1997 · Children's

    An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.

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    A Final Reckoning

    G. A. Henty · 1800 · Children's

    A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brus

  5. 5

    American notes

    Charles Dickens · 1800 · Children's

    Description of a trip by the famous British novelist Charles Dickens to the U.S. in the early 1840s, which included travel through the Great Lakes states. The first and last portions of the book are a

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    Dombey and Son

    Charles Dickens · 1800 · Children's

    Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he ru

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    Martin Chuzzlewit

    Charles Dickens · 1800 · Children's

    The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out fr

  8. 8

    The Night Before Christmas

    Clement Clarke Moore · 1857 · Children's

    A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

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    What Katy Did

    Susan Coolidge · 1873 · Children's

    Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin H

  10. 10

    The Hunting of the Snark

    Lewis Carroll · 1876 · Children's

    A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.

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