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Books like Desert Gold
Loved Desert Gold by Zane Grey? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from romance, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Daddy-Long-Legs
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
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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Platero y yo
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 Street of Seven Stars
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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Anne of the Island
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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Jennie Gerhardt
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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Seventeen
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"
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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The Song of the Lark
Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art.
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The story girl
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.