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12 books with a reading profile close to The blue castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.

  1. 1 Anne of the Island

    Anne of the Island

    by Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Anne Shirley leaves her teaching post in Avonlea to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree at Redmond College in Kingsport.

  2. 2 Everything Leads to You

    Everything Leads to You

    by Nina LaCour

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Emi Price is an eighteen-year-old production designer working as an intern on film sets in Los Angeles.

  3. 3 The Music Shop

    The Music Shop

    by Rachel Joyce

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Frank owns a record shop on a shabby street in an English town in the 1980s, in a world that has already moved to CDs.

  4. 4 Keeping the Moon

    Keeping the Moon

    by Sarah Dessen

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Colie Sparks arrives in Colby for the summer to stay with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her fitness-guru mother tours Europe.

  5. 5 Georgie, All Along

    Georgie, All Along

    by Kate Clayborn

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Georgie Mulcahy returns to her Virginia hometown after her professional life in Los Angeles collapses.

  6. 6 Making Faces

    Making Faces

    by Amy Harmon

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Set in a small town in Pennsylvania, the story follows Fern Taylor, a quiet girl who grows up in the shadow of Ambrose Young, the local wrestling star.

  7. 7 The Henna Wars

    The Henna Wars

    by Adiba Jaigirdar

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Nishat is a teenage girl living in Dublin who decides to come out to her Bengali parents, only to be met with a silent refusal to acknowledge her identity.

  8. 8 Instructions for Dancing

    Instructions for Dancing

    by Nicola Yoon

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Evie Thomas gains a supernatural ability to witness the entire trajectory of a couple’s romance, from the first spark to the eventual breakup, just by watching them kiss.

  9. 9 The Girl He Used to Know

    The Girl He Used to Know

    by Tracey Garvis Graves

    Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Annika Rose, a quiet, brilliant student with undiagnosed autism, meets Wes Winters at the University of Illinois chess club in the early 1990s.

  10. 10 Boy Meets Boy

    Boy Meets Boy

    by David Levithan

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Paul Ames lives in a fictional town where being gay is unremarkable, the high school homecoming queen is a star quarterback named Infinite Darlene, and the Boy Scouts are inclusive.

  11. 11 Circle of Friends

    Circle of Friends

    by Maeve Binchy

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Benny Hogan, a shy, plump girl from a small Irish town, goes to University College Dublin in the 1950s, where she becomes friends with Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns, and the glamorous Nan Mahon.

  12. 12 The Beginning of Everything

    The Beginning of Everything

    by Robyn Schneider

    romance, narrative

    Ezra Faulkner believes that everyone encounters a single tragedy that defines their personal history.

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