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Books like The Song of the Lark

Loved The Song of the Lark 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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    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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    The "genius"

    Theodore Dreiser · 1915 · Romance

    Dreiser's semi-autobiographical novel about a young man's unhappy marriage, adulterous relationships, and struggle to retain his artistic integrity.

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    Platero y yo

    Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 · Romance

    Platero y yo es una obra lírica escrita por el escritor y Premio Nobel de Literatura (1956) español Juan Ramón Jiménez, que recrea poéticamente la vida del asno Platero, su inseparable amigo de niñez

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    The Lone Star Ranger

    Zane Grey · 1914 · Romance

    Buck becomes a Texas outlaw when he kills a man in self-defense. His troubles don’t end there, though. When he is seen trying to rescue a young girl being held prisoner in Mexico, he incurs the anger

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    The Street of Seven Stars

    Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914 · Romance

    From the book:The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had een a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Mari

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    Desert Gold

    Zane Grey · 1913 · Romance

    A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into the stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruptio

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    Daddy-Long-Legs

    Jean Webster · 1912 · Romance

    From poor lonely orphan to sophisticated young woman — Jerusha Abbott can hardly believe her good fortune. All her life Jerusha has lived at the drearyJohn Grier Home for orphans. Now that she's seven

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    Marie

    H. Rider Haggard · 1912 · Romance

    This is the first in a trilogy about the adventures of Allan Quartermain that he wrote in his later years and were published after his death by a friend of his. Marie was a young Dutch girl living in

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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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