18 books like Breaking the rules

What to read after Breaking the rules — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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 Models, Celebrities, Young women, New york

How to Be Good Nick Hornby · 2000 · ★ 3.2 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Shares Married people, London, Domestic fiction, Literature

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch · 1974 · ★ 3.9 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites; the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro. Shares Married people, Domestic fiction

The Paris Apartment

The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley · 2020 · ★ 3.6 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not… Shares Paris

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Julian Fellowes · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and star-crossed lovers. Watch the new original series Belgravia only on EPIX. On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and many of… Shares London

The Thames River Murders

The Thames River Murders Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley · 2015 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 1818: Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer.Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must deal with… Shares London

Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, and Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic Series, Books 1, 2, & 3) Sophie Kinsella · 2001 · ★ 4.6 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Meet Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic—a young woman with a big heart, big dreams…and just one little weakness. Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not… Shares Young women, London, Literature

The two destinies Wilkie Collins · 1876 · ★ 3.7 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Challenging One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the… Shares Married people

Judith Paris Hugh Walpole · 1931 · 782p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Covering the years 1771 to 1822 and set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole's most delightful heroine. Daughter of Francis Herries and Mirabell Starr, Judith was described on publication as "the most delightful of Walpole's heroines." As impetuous, impulsive and passionate as her father, she is… Shares Paris, Young women

Treasure Box Orson Scott Card · 1996 · ★ 3.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Married people, New york, Domestic fiction with this book.

The cask Freeman Wills Crofts · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the longshoremen are bringing it onto the London docks, the cask slips, cracks, and spills some of its treasure: a wealth of gold sovereigns. As the workmen cram the spilled gold into their pockets, an… Shares Paris, London

The Monsters of Templeton

The Monsters of Templeton Lauren Groff · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A rollicking memoir by one of the greatest (and most outrageous) supermodels of the 1970s.Janice Dickinson was not only the first of the supermodels, she endured a nightmarishly traumatic childhood at the hands of a sadistic, sexually and emotionally abusive father, and emerged in the early 1970s as the first lush-lipped 'exotic' brunette to break into a modelling world dominated by sunny… Shares Models, New york, Literature

Canto for a Gypsy

Canto for a Gypsy Martin Cruz Smith · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith's most beloved novels--​the exciting and fast-paced Canto for a Gypsy . The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary is on display in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Guarded by many, including the NYPD and the gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey, a heist is impossible. But everybody wants the legendary Crown of Saint Stephen. The… Shares New york

The House of Fame

The House of Fame Oliver Harris · 2017 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Hailed by Val McDermid as a beguiling bastard of a hero, Oliver Harris s shrewd, cynical, and brilliant London detective, Nick Belsey, investigates a child s disappearance in this third novel (after the heart-pounding Deep Shelter).Anyone would want Amber Knight s life. Twenty-seven, rich and beautiful, she s living the dream. Her solo music career has eclipsed those of her former bandmates, and… Shares Celebrities

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth Xiaolu Guo · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Actors with this book.

The slave of the lamp Hugh Stowell Scott · 1891 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Paris with this book.

A Student of Weather Elizabeth Hay · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate *A Student of Weather* is the brilliant first novel by acclaimed storywriter, Elizabeth Hay. It tells the story of the rivalry between two contrasting sisters and of a stranger who changes both of their lives forever. Spanning thirty years, it opens in the Prairie Dust Bowl of the 1930s and, later, in the decades following the war, moves back and forth between Ottawa and New York City.… Shares Young women, New york, Domestic fiction

Twelve Nick McDonell · 2002 · ★ 3.2 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "White Mike is clean. He has never smoked a cigarette in his life. Never had a drink, never sucked down a doobie. But White Mike has become a very good drug dealer, even though it started out as a one-shot deal with his cousin Charlie. White Mike was a good student, but he's been out of school for six months, and though some people might wonder what he's doing, no one seams to care very much that… Shares New york, Literature

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