Books like City of Girls
If you liked City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Stargirl
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship, romance.
Leo Borlock likes blending in until homeschooled Stargirl Caraway arrives at Mica High with a ukulele, a pet rat, and kindness that tests…
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Because shares tags: romance, friendship, coming of age.
Two Chicago teens with one name collide, with Tiny Cooper's musical stealing every scene.
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The Giver of Stars
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship, romance.
Alice Wright joins Kentucky packhorse librarians with Margery and faces marriage strain and a murder trial.
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If He Had Been with Me
Because shares tags: romance, coming of age, friendship.
Childhood friends Autumn and Finn drift apart in high school until one August night changes everything.
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The Kite Runner
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age, friendship.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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Voyager
Because shares tags: historical fiction, romance.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
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The Seven Year Slip
Because shares tags: romance, new york.
A grieving publicist inherits a time slipping Manhattan apartment and falls for a chef living seven years in the past.
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The Rose Code
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Lincoln Highway
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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The Kitchen House
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
Irish orphan Lavinia is raised by enslaved cooks in the kitchen house, then torn between that family and the big house.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
A Cro-Magnon girl orphaned by disaster grows up with a Neanderthal clan, learning their medicine and customs while testing their limits.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship.
Fourteen-year-old Junior leaves his Spokane reservation school for an all-white farm town, drawing cartoons through grief, basketball, and…
