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Books like Lucy Gayheart

Loved Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather? 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Enchanted April

    Elizabeth von Arnim · 1922 · Romance

    "A notice in The Times addressed to 'Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the of

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    To the Last Man

    Zane Grey · 1921 · Romance

    "This is the classic story of a deadly feud between cattlemen and sheepherders in the Tonto Basin of Arizona in the late years of the 1800s that gave substance to one of the legendary conflicts of the

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    Night and Day

    Virginia Woolf · 1919 · Romance

    Night and day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and

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    The U.P. Trail

    Zane Grey · 1918 · Romance

    From the book:In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning we

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    Anne of the Island

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1915 · Romance

    New adventures lie ahead for Anne Shirley as she packs her bags, waves goodbye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport,

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    Seventeen

    Booth Tarkington · 1915 · Romance

    A reminiscence of America’s youth, Seventeen takes place in turn-of-the-20th-century Indianapolis. In this innocent story we learn that people dealt with the same affections and outlooks then as they

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