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Books Like I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith · about this book

Loved I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith? If its coming of age, female lead and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Other Bennet Sister, Little Women and Pride and Prejudice. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside I Capture the Castle: Coming of Age · Female Lead · First Person Narrator · Castle · Classics

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   The Other Bennet Sister

   Janice Hadlow

   Sisters · Self-Discovery · Heartwarming · Charming · Coming of Age

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   Little Women

   Louisa May Alcott

   Coming of Age · Writer Protagonist · Sisters · Nostalgic · Classics

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   Pride and Prejudice

   Jane Austen

   Sisters · Classics · Charming · Dry Humor · Literary Fiction

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   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Coming of Age · Classics · Teen Protagonist · Nostalgic · First Person Narrator

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   The Diary of a Young Girl

   Anne Frank

   Diary Format · Coming of Age · Classics · Teen Protagonist · Writer Protagonist

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   The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

   Beth Brower

   Diary Format · Charming · Dry Humor · Heartwarming · First Person Narrator

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   The Summer I Turned Pretty

   Jenny Han

   Nostalgic · Coming of Age · Love Triangle · Teen Protagonist · First Love

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8. 

   The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

   Melissa Bank

   Coming of Age · Self-Discovery · Dry Humor · Literary Fiction · First Love

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9. 

   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Coming of Age · Class Struggle · Classics · Teen Protagonist · Writer Protagonist

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    The Secret Life of Bees

    Sue Monk Kidd

    Coming of Age · Teen Protagonist · Sisters · Heartwarming · Self-Discovery

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11. 

    The Princess Diarist

    Carrie Fisher

    Diary Format · Nostalgic · First Love · Dry Humor · First Person Narrator

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12. 

    Will Grayson, Will Grayson

    John Green, David Levithan

    Coming of Age · Teen Protagonist · First Love · Self-Discovery · Heartwarming

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13. 

    Parable of the Sower

    Octavia E. Butler

    Diary Format · Class Struggle · Teen Protagonist · Classics · First Person Narrator

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14. 

    Emily Wilde Series 2 Books Collection Set By Heather Fawcett (Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries & Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands)

    Heather Fawcett

    Diary Format · Dry Humor · Charming · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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15. 

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    Coming of Age · Nostalgic · Classics · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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16. 

    Better Than the Movies

    Lynn Painter

    Teen Protagonist · First Love · Heartwarming · First Person Narrator · Coming of Age

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17. 

    A Gentleman in Moscow

    Amor Towles

    Charming · Heartwarming · Nostalgic · Dry Humor · Literary Fiction

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18. 

    The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

    Suzanne Collins

    Class Struggle · Teen Protagonist · Love Triangle · First Person Narrator · Sisters

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19. 

    Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

    Brandon Sanderson

    Self-Discovery · Heartwarming · Charming · Dry Humor · Coming of Age

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20. 

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Nostalgic · Love Triangle · First Person Narrator · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction

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