Books like “Anne of Green Gables”

What to read after “Anne of Green Gables” by L. M. Montgomery: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
Orphaned and sent to a gloomy Yorkshire house, Mary Lennox finds little to like until a robin leads her to a walled garden locked for years. With a local boy and her sickly cousin she brings the garden back to life, and the sadness buried in the house begins slowly to lift.
2
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Coming of Age
Four sisters grow up in a modest New England home while their father is away at war. They argue, make art, fall in love and learn to support one another through loss and change. A warm coming-of-age story about family, ambition and becoming yourself.
3
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read” and “Whimsical”
- Comfort Read
- Whimsical
Practical Flora Poste, newly orphaned, moves in with her gloomy rural relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she sets about tidying their tangled lives, one absurd cousin at a time, in a comic send-up of romantic country novels.
4
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read” and “Whimsical”
Mole leaves his underground home for the riverbank, where Rat, Badger and the reckless Mr. Toad become his friends. Their quiet days of boating and picnics are broken when Toad's craze for motorcars lands him in real trouble, and the four of them must set things right.
5
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith · 1948
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read” and “Whimsical”
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain writes her diary in a crumbling English castle where her family lives on almost nothing. When two wealthy American brothers arrive to claim the estate, love and money unsettle the household, and Cassandra grows up fast.
6
The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim · 1922
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read” and “Whimsical”
- Comfort Read
- Whimsical
Four British women, strangers to one another, answer an advertisement to rent an Italian castle for April. Away from husbands and habit, each is quietly changed by the sun, the sea and the company of the others, and returns to her old life seeing it anew.
7
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
Morrigan Crow is blamed for every misfortune and is marked to die on her eleventh birthday. Instead she is spirited away to the secret city of Nevermoor to compete for a place in an exclusive society, against rivals and a curse that still hunts her.
8
The Princess Bride
William Goldman · 1973
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read” and “Whimsical”
- Comfort Read
- Whimsical
Buttercup and farm boy Westley are parted when he sails away to make his fortune and is reported killed by pirates, and she is promised to a prince she does not love. A swordsman, a giant and a scheming noble chase the pair across a kingdom of pirates and wonders, in a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale of true love.
9
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai · 2013
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read” and “Whimsical”
- Comfort Read
- Whimsical
At a small Kyoto diner, Nagare Kamogawa and his daughter quietly work as food detectives. Clients describe a dish they cannot forget, and the pair trace its ingredients and the people tied to it, recovering memories, old losses and small reconciliations along the way.
10
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows · 2008
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Found Family
Writer Juliet Ashton begins a friendship in letters with the people of Guernsey, an island still marked by the German occupation. Through their stories of a secret reading group, she finds a community, a purpose and a reason to cross the sea herself.
11
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 2012
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Found Family
Ove is a grumpy widower who has decided there is nothing left for him, until a noisy young family moves in next door and keeps interrupting his plans. Piece by piece, the neighbourhood draws him back into a life he thought was over.
12
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
Alice follows a hurried white rabbit down a hole and lands in a world where cakes and drinks change her size and nothing follows ordinary rules. She meets the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and a short-tempered Queen.