5 Books to Read After You’ve Fallen For The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

If you’ve read Mackenzi Lee’s The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, you’ve already fallen in love. Monty (the titular gentleman) is destined to follow in his violent, disapproving father’s lordly footsteps, but he plans to party his way through Europe with his best friend Percy—and stern sister, Felicity—first. Those plans go awry when Monty steals the wrong trinket while attempting to get over his inconvenient crush on Percy―leading to an international manhunt, an interlude involving pirates, and a mad dash across the continent.
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is the kind of book you wish you could read for the first time over and over again. But since you can’t, here are five other wonderful reads to add to your list posthaste.

This Monstrous Thing, by Mackenzi Lee
If you can’t wait until 2018 for the sequel to Gentleman’s Guide (starring our BFF Felicity), pick up Mackenzi Lee’s Frankenstein retelling today. Alasdair Finch has a secret: he makes and fixes mechanical body parts, despite society’s general hatred for clockwork humans. When his brother, Oliver, dies, Alasdair takes that secret even further. With help from his friend Mary, he resurrects his brother―only to find out two years later that someone has published an anonymous novel called Frankenstein, whose characters bear a striking resemblance to Alasdair and Oliver. Before long, Alasdair and Oliver are on the run with nowhere to turn and everything at stake.

The Upside of Unrequited, by Becky Albertalli 
If you’re looking for another fun, adorable romance featuring LGBTQ characters, The Upside of Unrequited is it. When Molly’s cynical twin sister, Cassie, falls in love with Mina, Molly fears it’s the beginning of the end of their twin-ship. Still, Mina’s friend Will could be the glue that keeps them together, if Molly can manage to do what Cassie wants and get Will to like her back. But that’s easier said than done: after all, what if Will doesn’t like fat girls? And what about the fact that Molly can’t stop thinking about her chubby, Tolkien-loving coworker, Reid?

Tash Hearts Tolstoy, by Kathryn Ormsbee
Tash loves Tolstoy. (Yes, that Tolstoy.) She loves the author so much she calls him her dead Russian boyfriend, so much that she and her best friends spend most of their time creating a web series in his honor. When the show goes viral, Tash starts feeling the pressure to live up to her fame―and to turn her online flirtation with a fellow vlogger into a real thing, while somehow breaking it to him that she’s a romantic asexual. If you loved Gentleman’s Guide for its page-turning plot, fluff, representation, and swoonworthy cast of characters, bump Tash Hearts Tolstoy to the top of your TBR stack.

When Dimple Met Rishi, by Sandhya Menon
Like Monty, Dimple is no stranger to failing to live up to her parents’ expectations. Considering their ever-present insistence that she find the perfect Indian husband, Dimple is eager to get away. In a surprising turn of events, her parents allow her the perfect opportunity, sending her to a summer tech conference for aspiring web developers. That’s where she meets Rishi, the boy with whom her parents, along with his, are busy arranging her marriage, and suddenly it all makes unfortunate sense. Dimple is determined to shut the match down, but as she and Rishi bond over their shared nerdiness and slowly become friends, things just might get a little complicated.

A Darker Shade of Magic, by V. E. Schwab
Beautiful bisexual party boy you just want to hug? Check? Part of a trio of lovable characters? Check. Pirates? Check. Stolen trinket leading to way more problems than you ever anticipated? Double check. Of course, that’s where the similarities between trilogy starter A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gentleman’s Guide end. Kell is an Antari: a powerful magician with the ability to travel between worlds. But when he takes a mysterious object from one London to another, he sets off a chain of events that might destroy everything, and everyone, he loves.