Books to read if you love LITTLE WOMEN
In a post last year, I gave suggestions for books to check out if you’re a fan of Anne of Green Gables, and today, I’m recommending books for longtime Little Women fans. If you’re hoping for a book that has a similar feel, see if one of these fun vintage titles could be the right fit!
– If you love the realistic sibling dynamics, try What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge.
– If you’re a fan of sister stories and want another book with both child and young adult siblings, try Treasure for Debby by Amy Wentworth Stone.
– If you’re in the mood for a book that features the characters maturing from childhood to adulthood, try Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor Porter.
– If you’re on the hunt for another book featuring a heroine who longs to be a writer, try Jill’s Story by Jean Fiedler (hard to find, but worth looking for)!
– If you’re looking for another cozy family story set in the 1800s, try The Belonging Place by Jean Little.
– If your favorite aspect of Little Women was the Jo & Laurie subplot but you want the characters to actually end up together, try the Betsy-Tacy high school books by Maud Hart Lovelace, beginning with Heaven to Betsy.
– If you’d like to read another feel-good novel about a New England family pulling together in hard times, try Winterbound by Margery Williams Bianco.
– If you’re still in the mood for Louisa May Alcott but want something less known, try her delightful Jack and Jill!
Bonus: if a chapter where the characters time-travel to visit the Little Women cast sounds good to you, check out The Time Garden by Edward Eager!
What books would you recommend to Little Women fans? Leave a comment below!
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Thanks for the list! Great idea. I’m wondering if the Five Little Peppers Series might have appeal for fans of Little Women. The earlier ones are pitched for a little bit younger audience, but they have similar settings and time periods and the family is very close, with a strong mother.
I am also a fan of Alcott’s other girls’ stories – Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom, and An Old Fashioned Girl. And of course Little Men!
If you love Louisa May Alcott, then I hope you will try Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter. It is a dear, dear story, set in Indiana just after the lumbermen had changed the face of the forests there, -but the Limberlost remained. It is not sad or preachy, but like the March girls in Little Women, the main character must face up to difficult circumstances. A truly winsome growing-up novel for all ages.
I read the first Patty Fairfield book at your recommendation, and it gave me major Alcott vibes in the writing style and Patty’s decision-making process. For a lesser known Alcott I’d recommend A Garland for Girls; aspiring writer, Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt; creative siblings, Theater Shoes by Noel Streatfeild.
I love your list, especially since it has books I haven’t read, and I second Julie’s recommendation of An Old Fashioned Girl!
Thank You for the suggestions. Understood Betsy,American Girls,Kirsten,Samantha,Molly are good choices. Grandma’s Attic,The Pat Of Silver Bush series.
Marion
My suggestions are The Cobblestreet Cousins by Cynthia Ryland,Marigold by Lucy Maud Montgomery, All of A Kind Family,The Moffits Emily Series, The Five Little Peppers series,The Strawberry Girl and Jane of Lantern hill. Thank You for the suggestions .
Marilyn
I love this post so much, thank you, Anna Rose! It’s such a neat way to organize similar book suggestions, and also perfect timing, as I’m rereading Little Women right now. Anne of Green Gables is my suggestion. 🙂