9 best-selling classics books like Akin to Love by L.M. Montgomery

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Akin to Love

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.25

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Here Josephine looked straight at him with such intent and stern brown eyes that David felt she mus…

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1. Bliss

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback

But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

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2. Suicide Notes

By: Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does th… read more

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"you either are or aren't"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't ask to be saved"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that's the difference between crazy and not crazy."

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

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3. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
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6. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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7. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Oscar Wilde's Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • classics
  • short stories

8. The History of England

By: Jane Austen , A.S. Byatt , Cassandra Austen , Deirdre Le Faye

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

As a schoolgirl, Jane Austen must have suffered terribly under her lessons of English history. The … read more

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9. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

Similar categories in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • classics
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

10. Pictures

By: Katherine Mansfield

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

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11. Eveline

By: James Joyce

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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12. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Dream of a Ridiculous Man book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
"I want to suffer so that I may love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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13. Felix Ever After

By: Kacen Callender

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a … read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • romance
  • audiobook
"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

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14. You Should See Me in a Crown

By: Leah Johnson

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, … read more

Similar categories in Leah Johnson's You Should See Me in a Crown book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • romance
  • audiobook
"The best education is one you get in the world."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"I don’t believe in putting a question mark where God put a period."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"Did you know you have the chance to be the first black queen in Campbell history?"

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

"Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know."

-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

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15. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Earthlings book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • audiobook
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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16. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

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"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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17. I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

By: Mason Deaver

4.16

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here. When Ben De Backer comes out to … read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1) book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • romance
  • audiobook
"Whatever happens"

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"The world’s too loud sometimes."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"This kid, Nathan, laughs like it's his favourite thing in the world to do."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"Bodies are fucking weird, especially when it feels like you don't belong in your own."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

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18. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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19. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Mr Salary book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • romance
  • short stories
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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20. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Life Ceremony book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • short stories
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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21. Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Brown's Assembly book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • short stories
  • audiobook
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

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22. Bloom

By: Kevin Panetta

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Panetta's Bloom book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • romance
"Jeez! Why is my family manhandling me at this wedding?"

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love."

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"Got 'em! Comfortable shoes! Oh my God. They're like pillows. I hate high heels."

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"...what does he think is going to happen? An angel will just fall from the sky?"

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

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23. Supernova (Renegades, #3)

By: Marissa Meyer

4.39

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

All's fair in love and anarchy... The epic conclusion to Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Tri… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's Supernova (Renegades, #3) book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • audiobook
"Wrap Up (bingo de personajes)"

-Marissa Meyer, Supernova (Renegades, #3)

"We were all heroes in the end."

-Marissa Meyer, Supernova (Renegades, #3)

"all's fair in love and anarchy"

-Marissa Meyer, Supernova (Renegades, #3)

"The world doesn’t revolve around the Renegades!"

-Marissa Meyer, Supernova (Renegades, #3)

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24. Aphrodite Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

3.97

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Aphrodite Made Me Do It book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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25. The Husband Stitch

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.36

Format: 45 pages, ebook

"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ … read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's The Husband Stitch book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • short stories
"I feel as lonely as I have ever been"

-Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch

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26. Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

By: Timothy Janovsky

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't … read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
"With only the stars as my witness, I kiss him again, deeper, and to my surprise, it doesn’t feel like scratching an act off a list or completing a quest: it feels like coming home."

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

"Because I know for certain the cardboard version of himself he’s been asked for years to display in the storefront of his family life has been incinerated for good. He’s flesh and blood right now, fl…"

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

"It’s nice to hear him so self-aware. To know that the seismic waves of coming out are still rippling through him too. I thought I was alone in that. Everyone makes it seem like coming out is crossing…"

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

Cover of Akin to Love by L.M. Montgomery

27. Akin to Love

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.25

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Here Josephine looked straight at him with such intent and stern brown eyes that David felt she mus… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love book and L.M. Montgomery's Akin to Love

  • romance
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook

11 Best audiobook books like Akin to Love by L.M. Montgomery

Transform Your Habits

Bliss

Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender

4.24

Transform Your Habits

You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson

4.09

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A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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