18 books like Bartleby, the Scrivener

What to read after Bartleby, the Scrivener — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Piazza Tales Herman Melville · 1856 · ★ 3.5 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology with this book. Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper · 1897 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief. Shares Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Presidents for Kids

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 Shares United States, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The experience of literature Lionel Trilling · 1967 · ★ 4.0 · 1320p · ≈ 44h · Challenging Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo;… Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology

Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary Klein M · 1967 · ★ 3.7 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology with this book.

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares Presidents, United States, Biography & Memoir

Boyhood Лев Толстой · 1854 Shares Presidents, United States, Classic Literature with this book.

Journeys with the Black Dog Tessa Wigney · 2008 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Psychology, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge · 1929 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and… Shares Presidents, Biography & Memoir

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution Alexander Hamilton · 1788 · ★ 4.1 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Originally published anonymously, *The Federalist Papers* first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers urging voters to ratify the new Constitution. Still debated and discussed today, *The Federalist Papers* provide readers with an important commentary on the crucial issues facing a democracy. This edition includes a complete text of the Constitution. The documents that… Shares Open_syllabus_project, United States, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Wall Street stories Edwin Lefèvre · 1901 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Wall street, Securities industry with this book.

Alcatraz Frederick Faust · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Advances in Psychology Research Alexandra M. Columbus · 2008 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Psychology with this book.

Wanting

Wanting Luke Burgis · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate * Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg's "52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending" * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year *A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a… Shares Psychology

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Signs

Signs Laura Lynne Jackson · 2019 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side.“A collection of incredible stories . . . that speak to the universe’s endless capacity for magical moments.”—goop Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between… Shares Psychology

Somehow

Somehow Anne Lamott · 2024 · ★ 3.9 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to… Shares Psychology

Sacred Energies of the Sun and Moon

Sacred Energies of the Sun and Moon Erika Buenaflor · 2020 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Psychology with this book.

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