18 books like A hazard of new fortunes

What to read after A hazard of new fortunes — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The turmoil, a novel Booth Tarkington · 1914 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 booksellers rated him in a poll as the most significant contemporary American author. -Wikipedia entry for Tarkington Shares Social classes in fiction, City and town life in fiction, Social classes, City and town life

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry · 1995 · ★ 4.4 · 719p · ≈ 23h · Challenging A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's eagerly awaited second novel and follows his critically acclaimed Such a Long Journey, the book that won three prestigious literary awards in 1991. Set in India in the mid-1970s, A Fine Balance is a richly textured novel which sweeps the reader up into its special world. Large in scope, the narrative focuses on four unlikely people who come together in a… Shares City and town life in fiction, City and town life, Literature

That Old Cape Magic Richard Russo · 2009 · ★ 3.4 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Following Bridge of Sighs--a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive… Shares Married people in fiction, Married people, Literature

BLUE DIARY Alice Hoffman · 2001 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Includes discussion questions. Shares City and town life in fiction, City and town life

The two destinies Wilkie Collins · 1876 · ★ 3.7 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Challenging One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the… Shares Married people

Angle of repose Wallace Stegner · 1971 · ★ 4.2 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit.… Shares Married people in fiction, Married people, Literature

Treasure Box Orson Scott Card · 1996 · ★ 3.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Married people in fiction, Married people with this book.

The Address

The Address Fiona Davis · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. In 1985, Bailey… Shares Social classes

A history of New York Washington Irving · 1800 · ★ 3.7 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging A history of New York : from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty ; containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong ; the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam ; being the only authentic history of the times that ever… Shares City and town life, Literature

Eden's eyes Sean Costello · 1989 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goest to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes… Shares Literature

Vampire Academy Richelle Mead · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa… Shares Social classes in fiction, Social classes

Scandal Above Stairs

Scandal Above Stairs Jennifer Ashley · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Priceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife stands to take the blame. When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families. Soon antiques are disappearing not only from the extravagant households of connoisseurs and collectors, but from the illustrious British Museum. As… Shares Social classes

An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success..."Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power." --The New York Times Book Review Shares Romance norte americano, Social classes

World mythology Donna Rosenberg · 1986 · ★ 5.0 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares Literature with this book.

Lancelot Walker Percy · 1977 · ★ 3.4 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Married people in fiction, Married people with this book.

Not Easily Broken T. D. Jakes · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Married people, Literature with this book.

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 Social classes, Married people

The New York Trilogy Paul Auster · 1987 · ★ 3.9 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it… Shares City and town life, Literature

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