18 books like Among Others

What to read after Among Others — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Winter Garden Kristin Hannah · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past. Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her… Shares Mères et filles, Mother-daughter relationship, Mothers and daughters, Romans

The daffodil murder Edgar Wallace · 1921 · ★ 3.4 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Ein Londoner Gescha˜ftsmann entla˜©t seineAngestellte fristlos. Kurze Zeit spa˜ter liegter erschossen im Gras des Hyde Park ... Shares Young women, England

The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed William March · 1954 · ★ 4.0 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy’s classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything—even murder.   There’s something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she’s the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother… Shares Mères et filles, Mothers and daughters, Romans

Belinda Maria Edgeworth · 1802 · 483p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Maria Edgeworth won the admiration of her contemporaries Jane Austen and Walter Scott as well as later writers such as Thackeray and Turgenev. In Belinda (1801) she tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. Braving the perils of the marriage market, Belinda learns to think for herself as the examples of her friends prove singularly unreliable. Edgeworth's… Shares Young women, Coming-of-age, England

Mister Pip Jones, Lloyd · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much… Shares Books and Reading, Mothers and daughters, Coming-of-age

The foretelling Alice Hoffman · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 167p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A coming-of-age story that pierces the soul and heals the spirit, this is the tale of the future leader of the Amazon women warriors. Rain must hold fast to her inner warrior, but she is startled and mystified by the first stirrings of mercy towards the enemy. Shares Mères et filles, Mothers and daughters, Coming-of-age, Romans

Breaktime Aidan Chambers · 1978 · ★ 3.5 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A classmate's challenge to prove that literature is ever related to real life spurs Ditto to chronicle his amazing life-changing adventures during spring break, but he leaves it up to his friend to decide if it is true, or just a story. Shares Books and Reading, Coming-of-age, Friendship

God Help the Child Toni Morrison · 2015 · ★ 3.8 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused… Shares Mères et filles, Mothers and daughters, Coming-of-age, Romans

The Magicians Lev Grossman · 2009 · ★ 3.5 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of… Shares Books and Reading, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Magic

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 Jeunes femmes, Young women, Friendship, Romans

Riding Lessons

Riding Lessons Sara Gruen · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Amazing,epic, i bought the book myself it’s amazing annemarie and her daughter Eva basically go too their family farm horse place and annemarie lost her horse Harry and thinks this horse she sees there is Harry Shares Mother-daughter relationship, Mothers and daughters

Miss Marjoribanks Margaret Oliphant · 1866 · 546p · ≈ 18h · Challenging When Dr. Marjoribanks’s wife dies, his teenage daughter makes it her purpose in life “to be a comfort to dear papa.” At least, Lucilla thinks, ten years of such devotion might suffice, by which time she might have begun to “go off.” But beneath this grand intention lies a yet more ambitious plan: to revolutionize the moribund and constricted social life of Carlingford. She is remarkably… Shares Young women, England

A searching heart Janette Oke · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Young women, Friendship with this book.

The Rose Code

The Rose Code Kate Quinn · 2021 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares England, Friendship with this book.

Trading Up Candace Bushnell · 2002 · ★ 3.3 · 586p · ≈ 19h · Moderate A lingerie model whose fame and success have gone to her head, Janey Wilcox becomes involved in a world of too much money and too little ethics where she is forced to reexamine her values to determine how far she is willing to go to succeed. Shares Jeunes femmes, Young women, Romans

Tender Morsels Margo Lanagan · 1998 · ★ 3.6 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever--magicked men and wild bears break down the… Shares Mother-daughter relationship, Mothers and daughters, Magic

Witch's Boy Kelly Regan Barnhill · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin summons the strength to protect his family and community, while in the woods, the bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned. When a Bandit King tries to take magic from Ned's mother, a witch, the… Shares Books and Reading, Twins, Friendship, Magic

Proposal

Proposal Meg Cabot · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Light The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.That’s… Shares Romans

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