Read-alikes and related books

Books like Princess Diaries

24 titles for readers of Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, selected for shared themes: PRINCESSES_FICTION, DIARIES_FICTION, IDENTITY_FICTION, and FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS_FICTION.

THERMOPOLIS, MIA (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION PRINCESSES_FICTION DIARIES_FICTION IDENTITY_FICTION FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS_FICTION NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION CHILDREN'S FICTION

Top related books to Princess Diaries

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess in Waiting (Princess Diaries, 4)

Meg Cabot

Themes: PRINCESSES_FICTION • DIARIES_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION

Enchanted: The Junior Novelization

Disney Books

Themes: PRINCESSES_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

Harley’s Ninth

Cat Bauer

Themes: FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

Summer and the City (Carrie Diaries, Book 2) (Carrie Diaries, 2)

Candace Bushnell

Themes: DIARIES_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

A True Princess

Diane Zahler

Themes: PRINCESSES_FICTION • IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

Schmidt Delivered

Louis Begley

Themes: FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION

The Light in the Forest: Illustrated by Warren Chappell (Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics Series)

Conrad Richter

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

Dog Days (Vol. 4)

Jeff Kinney

Themes: DIARIES_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

The Faerie Path (Faerie Path, No. 1)

Frewin Jones

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#10

The Story Collector: A New York Public Library Book (The Story Collector, 1) — Kristin O’Donnell Tubb

Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#11

The Princess and the Hound

Mette Ivie Harrison

Themes: PRINCESSES_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#12

The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire #4) (4)

Tui T. Sutherland

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#13

Love Is a Many Trousered Thing (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 8)

Louise Rennison

Themes: DIARIES_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#14

With Love from Spain, Melanie Martin

Carol Weston

Themes: DIARIES_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#15

Crescendo (The Hush, Hush Saga)

Becca Fitzpatrick

Themes: FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#16

Girl at Sea

Maureen Johnson

Themes: FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#17

Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries)

Sheila Turnage

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#18

The Princess and the Pea (Usborne Young Reading)

Susanna Davidson

Themes: PRINCESSES_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#19

The Trust: A Secret Society Novel

Tom Dolby

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#20

Why a Disguise?

Laura Joffe Numeroff

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#21

Dark Lord: The Early Years

Jamie Thomson

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#22

The Getaway

Jeff Kinney

Themes: DIARIES_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#23

Belle Prater’s Boy

Ruth White

Themes: IDENTITY_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

#24

Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building

Deborah Hopkinson

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • CHILDREN'S FICTION

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of PRINCESSES_FICTION, DIARIES_FICTION, IDENTITY_FICTION — the same threads that run through Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot. Among the authors featured: Meg Cabot, Disney Books, Cat Bauer, Candace Bushnell, and others.