22 must-read romance books like Dearest Josephine by Caroline George

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Dearest Josephine

By: Caroline George

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Caroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story tha…

"Books always leave a light on."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

"Books always leave a light on."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

"She was the book he couldn’t put down."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

"She was the book he couldn’t put down."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

If you liked the romance plot in Dearest Josephine by Caroline George , here is a list of 22 books like this:

1. A Daring Sacrifice (An Uncertain Choice, #2)

By: Jody Hedlund

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The only thing harder than fighting for what's right...is fighting their feelings for each other. F… read more

Similar categories in Jody Hedlund's A Daring Sacrifice (An Uncertain Choice, #2) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

2. A Time to Die (Out of Time, #1)

By: Nadine Brandes

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

How would you live if you knew the day you'd die? Parvin Blackwater has wasted her life. At only se… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's A Time to Die (Out of Time, #1) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

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3. Drinker of Ink

By: Shannon Castleton

4.55

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

California, 1991 “I only ever talk to this journal. Is there an alternate universe? Another plan… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Castleton's Drinker of Ink book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Today is just full of ellipsis."

-Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

"Peter: Journaling takes a lot of discipline."

-Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

"Why is attraction a mix of elation and sickness?"

-Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

"One would have to be literally deaf not to hear the ellipsis in that."

-Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

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4. Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1)

By: Pepper Basham

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

“Dear Izzy—I feel certain there’s a book-loving man living relatively nearby waiting to speak booki… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The place where they lived within my heart is still being held for them, like a bookmark of sorts - waiting to see them again."

-Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1)

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5. Romanov

By: Nadine Brandes

3.76

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The history books say I died. They don’t know the half of it. Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was … read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's Romanov book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"And hope never abandoned us - only we could abandon it."

-Nadine Brandes, Romanov

"Papa always said that tears were the most fervent prayers, so I let them flow."

-Nadine Brandes, Romanov

"But I wasn't the only one with a gaping wound inside. We would all have to carry this pain."

-Nadine Brandes, Romanov

"But light could not be so swiftly overcome by darkness. Not when that light rested in a person's soul."

-Nadine Brandes, Romanov

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6. Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

By: Kara Swanson

4.26

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Peter Pan has crash-landed back on Neverland. But this is not the island he remembers. Desperate… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swanson's Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"You have always believed in the impossible, Peter. Don't give up yet."

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

"You won't save them with a blade. You can't heal a wound by making one."

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

"Neverwhere, life... it wasn't meant to be a freezeframe, Peter. It can't stay suspended forever. As much as it may hurt, we have to grow. If we don't grow, we don't live. We just stagnate and begin t…"

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

"you may be the boy who lost almost everything because of his mistakes and the brokenness of other people that he couldn't control, but you are also the boy who chose not to run. Who returned to his b…"

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

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7. Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read

By: S.D. Smith

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Mooses with And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. It’s exac… read more

Similar categories in S.D. Smith's Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I was born at a very early age."

-S.D. Smith, Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read

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8. Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)

By: Ashley Bustamante

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

DANGER LURKS BEHIND EVERY COLOR When Ava Locke was five years old, she began a journey to join t… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Bustamante's Vivid (The Color Theory, #1) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don’t know how to need someone this way. All this time my emotions have been guarded by a stick house, and now a wildfire is outside my door."

-Ashley Bustamante, Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)

"How can I know for sure? How can I ever truly know? My heart wants to justify every action and begs me to believe he is being honest, but my intellect keeps flashing warning lights and asking questio…"

-Ashley Bustamante, Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)

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9. The Story Raider (The Weaver Trilogy, #2)

By: Lindsay A. Franklin

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Deceiving an empire is a treacherous game. Tanwen and the Corsyth weavers race to collect the st… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay A. Franklin's The Story Raider (The Weaver Trilogy, #2) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hope is never lost as long as you're willing to fight for it"

-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Raider (The Weaver Trilogy, #2)

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10. The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

By: Sara Ella

4.18

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Solve the clues. Face your fears. Survive the Trials. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her N… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ella's The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How is the world inside your mind any less real than the one outside it?"

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

"Wonderland is what we imagine it to be, he says. You can become anything. Go anywhere. That's the magic of the Gene."

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

"But it is when we are not ourselves that believing in the impossible - in the unseen - becomes most vital. We must believe in something beyond you or I."

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

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11. Coral

By: Sara Ella

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There is more than one way to drown. Coral has always been different, standing out from her merm… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ella's Coral book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You are not nothing. And neither am I."

-Sara Ella, Coral

"True love makes life, even a broken one, worth fighting for."

-Sara Ella, Coral

"Did speaking a word to the outside truly change what took place within?"

-Sara Ella, Coral

"Maybe if they stopped hiding from it, they could begin to understand like never before."

-Sara Ella, Coral

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12. Calculated (Calculated #1)

By: Nova McBee

4.29

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B08MWMJR9J. Set in Shanghai and Se… read more

Similar categories in Nova McBee's Calculated (Calculated #1) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)

By: Pepper Basham

4.21

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Told mostly through letters, texts, and email, this contemporary romance will charm its way into he… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But don’t let all those big dreams in your head stop you from seeing that sometimes the best adventures can still be in the simplest things. Like home and family."

-Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)

"He’d never met anyone who wore sunshine quite like Penelope Edgewood. At first, it had been too much. Too overpowering and seemingly inauthentic, but then, over the weeks, her vibrancy melded into th…"

-Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)

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14. Wishtress

By: Nadine Brandes

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

She didn't ask to be the Wishtress. Myrthe was born with the ability to turn her tears into wish… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's Wishtress book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When one fills each day with life, it makes time multiply"

-Nadine Brandes, Wishtress

"We may be on opposite sides, but that doesn't mean we're enemies."

-Nadine Brandes, Wishtress

"I've heard you. I want you to know that.' He held my gaze, his expression intense and determined. 'I know you're trying to get to the Well."

-Nadine Brandes, Wishtress

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15. A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

By: Angela Bell

4.02

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, En… read more

Similar categories in Angela Bell's A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"You are "

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"You are a maker. Not the Maker."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Dearest Clara, I would rather be absurd with you than normal with anyone else."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Heaven knows you're precious and worth protecting even when men don't, and heaven will defend you even when men fail."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

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16. The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry

By: Anna Rose Johnson

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a… read more

Similar categories in Anna Rose Johnson's The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Dearest Josephine

By: Caroline George

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Caroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story tha… read more

Similar categories in Caroline George's Dearest Josephine book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • time travel
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Books always leave a light on."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

"She was the book he couldn’t put down."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

"We take from books what we bring to them."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

"For a moment with you, I wait an eternity."

-Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

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18. A Bond of Briars

By: Erin Phillips

4.44

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

She is bonded to a spirit who demands her blood. She follows a mother-in-law who resents her power… read more

Similar categories in Erin Phillips's A Bond of Briars book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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19. Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

By: Victoria Lynn

4.01

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Violet lives her quiet little life in her sleepy village. Trying to remain as dead to the politics … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Lynn's Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Lord, it hurts."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

"His pain affected her deeply."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

"The Lord works in mysterious ways."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

"I only did what anyone ought to do."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

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20. The June Boys

By: Court Stevens

3.54

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

The Gemini Thief could be anyone. Your father, your mother, your best friend’s crazy uncle. Some co… read more

Similar categories in Court Stevens's The June Boys book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You don't owe your truths to everyone."

-Court Stevens, The June Boys

"The older I get, the more I hold multiple emotions at the same time."

-Court Stevens, The June Boys

"Sometimes you have to accept that you might not be able to see the truth from here."

-Court Stevens, The June Boys

"You, my dear, have been through an ordeal, so you cry all you want. Crying heals soul wounds that medicine can't touch."

-Court Stevens, The June Boys

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21. The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple

By: Joanna Davidson Politano

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Peter Driscoll, an underground investigator to the wealthy, has never met anyone like Lily Temple. … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Davidson Politano's The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"When did people come to see stories as mere fancy? As indulgence? All our flaws and questions dressed up in other people's clothing, strolling about in front of us so we may more clearly see what's t…"

-Joanna Davidson Politano, The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple

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22. A Crown of Chains

By: Erin Phillips

4.12

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Becoming queen is not the end of a fairytale; it is the beginning of a nightmare. When the queen… read more

Similar categories in Erin Phillips's A Crown of Chains book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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23. The Nightmare Virus

By: Nadine Brandes

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Some viruses go after the body. But the Nightmare Virus goes after the mind.When dream technology g… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's The Nightmare Virus book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"You serve the Creator, right?' She nods but seems anxious. 'So create with Him."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

"Nole used to say turning to God wasn't weakness. That being weak is where the true strength came from."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

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24. Endlewood

By: Alissa J. Zavalianos

4.30

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Griskol, magic and deceit are forbidden. And to practice any form of them could lead to death. … read more

Similar categories in Alissa J. Zavalianos's Endlewood book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We all have our stories—every one of them marked by fire."

-Alissa J. Zavalianos, Endlewood

"It's one of those nights again, isn't it? The kind where the stars seem to tell their stories."

-Alissa J. Zavalianos, Endlewood

"A heart didn't need fortified walls made out of fear. No. It needed love, and love had the power to do what fear could not. Restore. Forgive. Mend."

-Alissa J. Zavalianos, Endlewood

"Sometimes we don't understand why hard things happen to us, but we have to trust that it's for a greater reason. That good can still come out of it even when it hurts."

-Alissa J. Zavalianos, Endlewood

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25. A Kingdom to Claim

By: Sian Ann Bessey

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Aisley lost everything in a Viking attack. Now, working alongside the one man she trusts, she is re… read more

Similar categories in Sian Ann Bessey's A Kingdom to Claim book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Beyond Ivy Walls

By: Rachel Fordham

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, a recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life ar… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Fordham's Beyond Ivy Walls book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Counterfeit Attachment (The Bath Schoolmates, #2)

By: Holli Jo Monroe

4.09

Format: 290 pages, ebook

Miss Charity Radforde prefers museums to balls, lectures to dinner parties, and spinsterhood to mat… read more

Similar categories in Holli Jo Monroe's The Counterfeit Attachment (The Bath Schoolmates, #2) book and Caroline George's Dearest Josephine

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction

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Jody Hedlund

4.51

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Nadine Brandes

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4.02

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Anna Rose Johnson

3.87

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4.19

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Megan Walker

4.42

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