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Books like Betty Zane

Loved Betty Zane by Zane Grey? 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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    The Crisis

    Winston Churchill · 1901 · Romance

    "The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the U.S. Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abol

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    Green Mansions

    W. H. Hudson · 1900 · Romance

    A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the "green mansions" of the title, Abel encounters the woo

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    I Will Repay

    Emma Orczy · 1900 · Romance

    Juliette Marny has sworn to ruin the man who killed her brother. When, ten years later, she finally meets him, she finds out the truth about her brother's death - and must decide between honouring her

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    Scaramouche

    Rafael Sabatini · 1900 · Romance

    Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge. [from Wikipedia: Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his ad

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    The half-hearted

    John Buchan · 1900 · Romance

    In the closing years of the 19th century, Lewis Haystoun, a dilettante and coward, falls for Alice Wishart, a guest at a Scottish country house party hosted by Lady Manorwater. Ill at ease in his own

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    The Longest Journey

    E. M. Forster · 1907 · Romance

    "The cow is there," said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, "She is there, the cow. There, now

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    The ghost

    Arnold Bennett · 1907 · Romance

    "In pursuit of Rosetta Rose, a beautiful singer, Carl Foster survives a series of disasters: a train crash, a shipwreck and even attempted murder. On each occasion he sees a sinister figure, who prove

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    Jennie Gerhardt

    Theodore Dreiser · 1911 · Romance

    Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.

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    The story girl

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1911 · Romance

    Two young boys visiting their relatives on Prince Edward Island become entranced by Sara Stanley and the stories she tells about the island and its long-ago inhabitants.

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    Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story

    Sir Max Beerbohm · 1911 · Romance

    That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gaze

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