18 books like Bartleby, the Scrivener

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Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway · 1927 · ★ 3.6 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime thriller about two hit-men and The Undefeated about a bullfighter in Spain. Shares: Community pick

Piazza Tales Herman Melville · 1856 · ★ 3.4 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology Shares: Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology

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

Wall Street stories Edwin Lefèvre · 1901 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Edwin Lefèvre was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat most noted for his writings on Wall Street business: The Woman and Her Bonds, The Break in Turpentine, The Tipster, A Philanthropic Whisper,The Man Who Won, The Lost Opportunity, Pike's Peak or Bust, A Theological Tipster. Shares: Wall street, Securities industry

Where Are the Customer's Yachts? Fred Schwed · 1940 · ★ 4.0 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Wall street, Securities industry

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 Masculinity, a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles typically associated with boys and men Shares: Presidents, United States, Classic Literature

Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge · 1929 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Challenging 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

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 TIME For Kids presents a complete overview of our nation's chief executives from George Washington to the newly elected 45th president!Did you know that James Monroe was the first president to appear without a wig in public? Or that George W. Bush appointed the first African-American secretary of state? Presidents of the United States invites the reader inside the White House to discover… Shares: United States, Biography & Memoir

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

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution Alexander Hamilton · 1788 · ★ 4.1 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Demanding 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

The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Challenging The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt. Shares: Presidents, United States, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Billion Dollar Whale Bradley Hope & Tom Wright · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics. 75,000 first printing. "What does it take to steal $5 billion? In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in… Shares: Wall street, Biography & Memoir

Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy Gerald Corey · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 554p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Incorporating the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of human experience, the tenth edition of Corey's best-selling book helps students compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in counseling theories. Corey introduces students to the major theories (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems,… Shares: Open_syllabus_project, Psychology

Love is eternal Irving Stone · 1954 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate A politically-minded young lady and an awkward lawyer marry and eventually become President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Shares: Presidents, United States

Blood Oath Christopher Farnsworth · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. The President's vampire. Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the president. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood oath, Cade has spent more than 140 years in service to the president, battling… Shares: Presidents, United States

George Washington Matt Doeden · 2000 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate George Washington – In graphic novel format, recounts the life story of George Washington, the leader of the continental army during the Revolutionary War and the first president of the United States. Shares: Presidents, Biography & Memoir

Alcatraz Frederick Faust · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Max Brand Megapack assembles 20 classic Max Brand tales—novels and short stories—set primarily in the American West. For pure Old West adventure, it doesn't get better than this -- more than 3,300 pages of action-packed reading! Included are: HARRIGAN (1918) THE GHOST (1919) HOLE-IN-THE-WALL BARRETT (1919) TRAILIN’! (1919) THE UNTAMED (1920) OUT OF THE DARK (1920) RIDERS OF THE SILENCES… Shares: Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

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