18 books like A Good Yarn

What to read after A Good Yarn — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Back on Blossom Street Debbie Macomber · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street--a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired an assistant named Colette Blake, a young widow who's obviously hiding a secret--or two.When Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting class, they discover that Lydia and her sister, Margaret, have worries of their own.… Shares: Knitters, Relationship Novel, Female friendship, Friendship

Susannah's Garden Debbie Macomber · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It was the year that changed everything… When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake—and never saw him again. She never saw her brother, Doug, again, either. He died unexpectedly that same year. Now, at fifty, Susannah finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing… Shares: Knitters, Relationship Novel, Women, Romance

Mapp and Lucia (Make Way for Lucia, Part 4) E. F. Benson · 1931 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Meet Mapp and Luciatwo of the most unpleasant, disgraceful women you're ever likely to encounter, in E.F. Benson's carefully observed tale of 1930s village life and social ranking Emmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) is emerging from mourning following the death of her husband. Pretentious, snobbish, and down-right devious, she feels her hometown of Riseholme offers no challenges and… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship

Grand avenue Joy Fielding · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Looking back, it seemed like paradise; lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends, Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki shared everything through good times and bad, and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists and turns of fate and circumstance. Now, she must sift through each… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship

The weight of silence Heather Gudenkauf · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Brought on by a tragedy experienced as a toddler, Calli Clark, suffers from selective mutism. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is confined by marriage to a violent husband. Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend and her voice. But neither Petra of Calli have been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Shares: Relationship Novel, Romance

Nana Yazawa Aï · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Publishers Weekly: Nana, Japan's most popular shojo (girl's) manga, is appearing in English for the first time. Nana Komatsu is a flaky young woman who's just emerged from an emotionally devastating affair with an older, married man. She dreams of a perfect romantic love, like in the movies, but her best friend, Junko, counsels her that it might be time to try being friends with a guy instead of… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship

Nana Yazawa Aï · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help here make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock' n' roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly gecome best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship

Potterism Rose Macaulay · 1920 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Others in the Potter newspaper empire are drawn into Jane’s destructive little ways. Mrs Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes appear in the shop-girls’ magazines. She has become unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an unhealthy estimation of her own influence. When she visits a medium to try to find the truth about the murder of her… Shares: Fiction - General, Romance

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 699p · ≈ 23h · Demanding No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought,… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop,… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship, Romance

Light a Penny Candle Maeve Binchy · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 600p · ≈ 20h · Moderate As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship, Romance

Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Moderate It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace… Shares: Female friendship, Women, Friendship, Romance

Memorial de Aires (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) Machado de Assis · 1908 · ★ 3.3 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Obras Completas de José de Alencar Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis é amplamente considerado como o maior nome da literatura nacional. Escreveu em praticamente todos os gêneros literários, sendo poeta, romancista, cronista, dramaturgo, contista, folhetinista, jornalista, e crítico literário. Nesta Obra compilamos todos os romances publicados pelo consagrado autor. Conteúdo: Dom Casmurro (1899),… Shares: Fiction - General, Romance

Nora, Nora Anne Rivers Siddons · 2000 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Peyton is not ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone a barely remembered cousin who just rolled into town, a cousin who smokes cigarettes and drives a pink Thunderbird. However, her father seems to like Nora well enough, and she does make for good conversation at the Losers Club, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which raises Nora slightly in Peyton's esteem. Maybe she isn't so… Shares: Fiction - General, Romance

Strangers in paradise Terry Moore · 1996 · ★ 3.5 · 107p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Years before David met Katchoo, he was a ruthless gang member named Yousaka Takahashi who was destined to head the American Yukuza. One day, he discovered guilt and remorse, and started down the path that would make him a mild-mannered artist named David. Shares: Female friendship, Women

Sanctuary Beverly Lewis · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ajax the Younger violates Cassandras sanctuary at the Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca. 440–430 BCE]] Shares: Female friendship, Friendship

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes Diane Chamberlain · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty-eight years ago, a North Carolina governor’s young, pregnant wife was kidnapped. Now, her remains have been found and a man charged with her murder. Only one person-CeeCee Wilkes-can refute the charges against him. But CeeCee disappeared years ago. . . Eve Elliot is a successful therapist to troubled students, a loving wife, a mother deeply invested in her family. But her happiness is… Shares: Relationship Novel, Romance

Young Wives Olivia Goldsmith · 2000 · ★ 3.5 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Three thirty-something women, all betrayed by their husbands, bind together for friendship and revenge. Shares: Female friendship, Women

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