18 books like Angela's Ashes

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Wild Cheryl Strayed · 1767 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Demanding A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her… Shares: Biography & Memoir

Che Jon Lee Anderson · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 819p · ≈ 27h · Moderate "Author obviously admires Guevara and thus tends to exaggerate his role in the Cuban Revolution; however, he has managed a degree of objectivity sufficient for production of the best biography of the guerrilla thus far. Author's research is wide and deep, his work is careful and meticulous, and he always remains close to the facts. Few will continue to venerate the memory of Guevara after reading… Shares: Biografías, Biografía, Biography & Memoir

Spinning-wheel stories Louisa May Alcott · 1884 · ★ 3.7 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A collection of twelve heart warming stories for children. Premise: a winter storm forces a family, who have gathered for the winter holidays, to stay inside and listen to their grandmothers stories. Shares: Children, Family, Families

Ramona and Her Mother Beverly Cleary · 1979 · ★ 4.4 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary is the fifth book of the popular Ramona series. Mr. Quimby has found another job, though it is one he does not like very much. Ramona finds herself caught between being too young to stay home alone and too old to enjoy playing with pesky Willa Jean. She is trying to grow up, but sometimes it seems like her family is making it harder. Ramona and Her Mother… Shares: Familia, Spanish language materials, Family, Families

Wild Swans Jung Chang · 1989 · ★ 4.3 · 729p · ≈ 24h · Moderate "Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover. Shares: Irish Americans, Family, Families, Biography & Memoir

Mosaic Holroyd, Michael. · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As… Shares: Childhood and youth, Family, Families, Social life and customs

Ayyām Ṭāhā Ḥusayn · 1932 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Childhood and youth, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

Confessions of an economic hit man Perkins, John · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Sinhalese translation of a controversial book on the economic policies of U.S. government with respect to developing countries. Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

よつばと! 1 あずまきよひこ · 2003 · ★ 4.6 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate sniffle Yotsuba thinks grown-ups are mean. Daddy plays all kinds of neat games with Yotsuba, but he ALWAYS WINS! Even when Yotsuba TELLS him to be paper in Rock-Paper-Scissors, he doesn't listen! Even then! Yotsuba never, ever wants to be a big meanie grown-up, nuh-uh! But grown-ups get to buy ice cream all by themselves, so ... um ... maybe it's okay to be a grown-up sometimes? Shares: Familia, Families

La casa de los espíritus Isabel Allende · 1982 · ★ 4.3 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Primera novela de Isabel Allende. La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido, con mano de hierro, un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse a raíz del paso del tiempo y de un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrará a los Trueba a una dolorosa… Shares: Familia, Family

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · ★ 3.7 · 801p · ≈ 26h · Demanding The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action… Shares: Family, Families, Social life and customs

Object Lessons Anna Quindlen · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what… Shares: Irish Americans, Families

On the Move Oliver Sacks · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the… Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

Becoming Maria Sonia Manzano · 2015 · ★ 3.7 · 267p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy… Shares: Childhood and youth, Family, Biography & Memoir

Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, ou, Histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie ... Joseph François Michaud · 1812 · 617p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Shares: Biografías, Biography & Memoir

Mr. Dooley in peace and in war Finley Peter Dunne · 1898 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Welcome to Mr. Dooley's place, a neighborhood saloon in the working-class community of Bridgeport, located on Chicago's near southwest side. Here matters of the gravest import are perused with homespun philosophy and good cheer. Covering the waterfront from Mack's (President McKinley's) foreign policies and political appointments to the Alaskan gold rush and juvenile delinquency, Martin T. Dooley… Shares: Irish Americans, Social life and customs

Academy street Mary Costello · 2014 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess… Shares: Irish Americans, Families

Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different… Shares: Biografía, Biography & Memoir

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