18 books like Beck

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

Der Nachsommer Adalbert Stifter · 1900 · 927p · ≈ 30h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture Helena Feder · 2016 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Gadis Pantai Pramoedya Ananta Toer · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken… Shares Bildungsromans

Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At… Shares Bildungsromans

Sinister street Sir Compton Mackenzie · 1913 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world.… Shares Bildungsromans

Defy the Stars Claudia Gray · 2017 · ★ 3.5 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate *She's a soldier.* Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. *He's a machine.* Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of… Shares Orphans -- Fiction, Orphans, Children's fiction

Fade Robert Cormier · 1988 · ★ 3.8 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can "fade." First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his "gift" soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act."Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man, and you'll have an idea how good Fade is. . . . I was absolutely… Shares Adolescence, Children's fiction

Kipps H. G. Wells · 1900 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Partly based on Wells’ own experiences as a young man this novel centres on an orphan who becomes apprenticed to a draper. Bored with his humdrum existence of living and working in a drapers, Kipps’ life changes radically when he inherits a fortune from a previously unknown relative. However more troubles occur when he attempts to emulate the people he encounters in upper class society. Shares Orphans -- Fiction, Orphans, Bildungsromans

New-England tale Catharine Maria Sedgwick · 1822 · ★ 3.2 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of the many novels, tales, and short magazine pieces Catharine Sedgwick published… Shares Orphans, Bildungsromans

The Luck of Troy Roger Lancelyn Green · 1961 · ★ 3.9 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 12 year old Nicostratus, carried off from Greece as a child with Helen, his mother, by Paris of Troy, helps Odysseus to conquer Troy for Greece. Shares Adolescence, Children's fiction

Last Days of Summer Updated Ed Steve Kluger · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate **From Goodreads:** The hilarious and heart–warming story about a down–and–out kid who finds inspiration in his favourite baseball hero. In Brooklyn, 1940, a wisecracking, baseball loving twelve–year–old boy, Joey Margolis, is in desperate need of a hero. His rich father has recently divorced his mother, leaving her all but penniless, and she is forced to move herself and her son to an… Shares Adolescence, Bildungsromans

Siege and Storm Leigh Bardugo · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. Shares Orphans -- Fiction, Orphans, Children's fiction

The lamplighter Maria S. Cummins · 1854 · ★ 4.1 · 516p · ≈ 17h · Challenging A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of Boston. Rescued by the kindly lamplighter Trueman Flint, she learns to meet life with courage and honesty. The novel ... remained continuously in print until the 1920s ... [and was] second in mid-century popularity only to Uncle Tom's… Shares Orphans, Bildungsromans, Children's fiction

Never Bite a Boy on the First Date Tamara Summers · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate I've got a few issues: I'm a vampire now. One of my classmates was found dead, with telltale fang marks. I didn't do it! (really!) Nobody believes me, so . . . I'm going to have to find the real killer. I've already got three suspects. (three very cute suspects.) One more problem: I am seriously falling for one of them . . . but what if he's the killer? Shares Adolescence, Children's fiction

Catwoman Sarah J. Maas · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, the city looks ripe for the taking. Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove that as Batwing he has what it takes to help people.… Shares Bildungsromans, Children's fiction

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Horace McCoy · 1935 · ★ 3.9 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The Marathon Dance Craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money--dancing the hours away for cash. But, the underside of that Craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. [author's] classic American story captures that dark side in this powerful… Shares Depressions

The Calamity Club

The Calamity Club Kathryn Stockett · 2026 · ★ 4.5 · 638p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she’s… Shares Orphans -- Fiction

Midnight Whispers V.C. Andrews · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate HAPPY AND INNOCENT, DAWN'S DAUGHTER CHRISTIE HAS GROWN UP IN THE SAFEST, MOST LOVING OF HOMES ... Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove ... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome… Shares Orphans, Bildungsromans

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