Books like Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery reads as warm, whimsical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster · 1912

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg · 2010

Shares the escape + foundfamily thread

79% genome match

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

Shares the escape + foundfamily thread

69% genome match

Behind the Attic Wall

Sylvia Cassedy · 1983

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

The Maid

Nita Prose · 2022

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

69% genome match

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911

Same classic feel

62% genome match

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Shares the escape thread

83% genome match

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

Shares the foundfamily thread

69% genome match

The children of Green Knowe

Lucy M. Boston · 1954

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

75% genome match

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Edith Nesbit · 1899

Shares the escape thread

75% genome match

Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 2012

Shares the foundfamily + outsider thread

83% genome match