Books like The Girl Who Chased the Moon
12 books with a reading profile close to The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen. Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by Tia Williams
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set against the backdrop of modern-day Harlem, the story follows Ricki Wilde, a free-spirited florist and the black sheep of a prominent, wealthy family.
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Starling House
romance, narrative
In the dying town of Eden, Kentucky, Opal works menial jobs to provide a future for her younger brother, Jasper.
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The Sugar Queen
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Josey Whitaker, inheriting her grandmother's legendary bakery, discovers that many of her family's recipes are infused with a magical element tied to emotions.
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The Book of Tomorrow
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
After her father dies and her family is ruined, sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin, once spoiled and wealthy, is sent with her mother to live in a country house in Ireland with her uncle and aunt, who are strange and remot…
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
In this version of the fairy tale, the protagonist, nicknamed Beauty despite her plain appearance, is a bookish and awkward young woman who values her intellect over her looks.
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Heartless
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Long before she became the Red Queen, Catherine Pinkerton dreams of opening a bakery rather than marrying the King of Hearts.
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The Ghost Bride
by Yangsze Choo
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Li Lan, a young woman from a declining family in colonial Malacca in 1893, receives an unusual marriage proposal from the wealthy Lim family: to wed their dead son as a ghost bride.
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The Scorpio Races
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
On the island of Thisby, the November tides bring the Capaill Uisce, predatory water horses that emerge from the sea with a hunger for human flesh.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
romance, narrative
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow belongs to a lineage of women plagued by hereditary hallucinations and sudden disappearances.
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Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Agnieszka lives in a quiet valley shadowed by a malevolent, sentient Wood that consumes any person who ventures too deep.
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What the Wind Knows
by Amy Harmon
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Anne Gallagher travels to Ireland to scatter her grandfather’s ashes, only to be pulled through a temporal rift on Lough Gill.
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A Secret History of Witches
Also practical and clear-cut · narrative, fantasy
Louisa Morgan follows three women from one family of witches over several centuries.
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