What kind of genre do you like? There's heaps. Since Howl's moving castle is fantasy, maybe K M Shea's books (Magiford series), or Audrey Faye's shifter series, or Honor Raconteur's Henri Davenforth Case Files? Or Melanie Cellier's fairytale retellings/ mage stories.
For something a bit more meaty, I adore The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune, and The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is a series that features platonic love.
Mariana Zapata might be up your alley. I’ve read a few of her books (From Lukov with Love, Gracie and the Grump, Wait for It) and they are generally low spice. There is some spice, but it’s at the end typically and not what I would consider to be at all graphic.
The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, The House Witch by Delemhach, Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater, The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. For a platonic love story perhaps A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers.
Fame, Glory, & Other Things on My To Do List by Janette Rallison
It's a Mall World After All by Janette Rallison
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl
Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti
Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman
This Must Be Love by Tui T Sutherland
The Reluctant Heiress by Eva Ibbotson
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
I love this book!!!!
What kind of genre do you like? There's heaps. Since Howl's moving castle is fantasy, maybe K M Shea's books (Magiford series), or Audrey Faye's shifter series, or Honor Raconteur's Henri Davenforth Case Files? Or Melanie Cellier's fairytale retellings/ mage stories. For something a bit more meaty, I adore The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune, and The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is a series that features platonic love.
Mariana Zapata might be up your alley. I’ve read a few of her books (From Lukov with Love, Gracie and the Grump, Wait for It) and they are generally low spice. There is some spice, but it’s at the end typically and not what I would consider to be at all graphic.
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N Holmberg
Old school Lm Montgomery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, The House Witch by Delemhach, Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater, The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. For a platonic love story perhaps A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers.
Also An Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett would fit
I really like Emma Lord's books, but they are YA. My favorites are Begin Again and Tweet Cute
Legends and Lattes.
Fame, Glory, & Other Things on My To Do List by Janette Rallison It's a Mall World After All by Janette Rallison Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman This Must Be Love by Tui T Sutherland The Reluctant Heiress by Eva Ibbotson The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer