Books Similar to Sparks, Giffin, and Gabaldon

Try these books if you're looking for:

• books that grab your attention quickly
• underlying love story
• read like Nicholas Sparks, Emily Giffin, and Diana Gabaldon

This Lullaby 
By Sarah Dessen
YA DESSEN
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.

Eleanor and Park 
By Rainbow Rowell
YA F ROWELL
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Someday, Someday Maybe 
By Lauren Graham
F GRAHAM
The stage and screen star best known for her work in such series as Gilmore Girls presents the story of a struggling actress in 1990s New York City who searches for work and the perfect hair product while befriending a rival and resisting her father's pressure to get a "real" job.

P.S., I Love You 
By Cecelia Ahern
F AHERN
Holly has always depended on her husband's practical advice to keep her going and despairs when she loses him to brain cancer, until a package arrives filled with advice for carrying on with her life without her beloved husband.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation 
By Lauren Willig
F WILLIG Secret #1
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.

Love Stories Like Those by Nicholas Sparks or Jane Austen

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Romance
• Nicholas Sparks read-alikes
• Jane Austen read-alikes
• Meaningful themes
• Strong Characterization
  

Love Comes Softly
By Jeanette Oke
ROMANCE OKE
Marty is a young pioneer woman, recently widowed and pregnant with no place to live and no means to go home. Clark Davis asks her to be his wife since he needs a caretaker for his young daughter, Missie, and Marty needs food and shelter. Not interested, but desperately in need, she accepts. Marty is determined to pull her weight until spring when Clark will pay her way home.

One Tuesday Morning
By Karen Kingsbury
ROMANCE KINGSBURY
The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing--not rushing to help trapped victims, not being blasted from the building, and not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife. Jamie Bryan will do anything to help her husband regain his memory. But that means helping Jake rediscover the one thing Jamie has never shared with him--his deep faith in God.

The Gazebo
By Emily Grayson
ROMANCE GRAYSON
Overburdened single mother Abby Reston is hard at work as editor of her small upstate New York hometown newspaper when Martin Rayfiel appears at her door unannounced. Too busy to pay much attention to the handsome elderly man as he attempts to tell her his story of love, loyalty, and loss that spanned half a century, Abby finds herself intrigued in spite of her efforts to ignore the stranger in her office.

The Last Promise
By Richard Paul Evans
F EVANS
Eliana came to Italy to study art and soon married Maurizio Fernini and had a son. What seemed like a fairy tale quickly soured - Eliana knows that in her adopted country she's expected to shrug philosophically at her husband's cheating, but she remains furious and desperately lonely. Then she meets American Ross Story. Eliana asks Ross to sit for a portrait, and soon she's not as lonely as she used to be. But as the two fall for each other, she faces a tormenting choice between romantic love and her love for her son.

Bel Canto
By Ann Patchett
F PATCHETT
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.