18 books like Cathedral

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

High-Tech DIY Projects with Robotics Maggie Murphy · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Light Shares Design and Construction with this book.

Performance and computer-aided design Alain Liégeois · 1985 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Design and Construction with this book.

Coniston Winston Churchill · 1906 · ★ 3.6 · 566p · ≈ 18h · Moderate This book is about a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was. The Era of the first six presidents had closed, and a new Era had begun. I am speaking of political Eras. Certain gentlemen, with a pious belief in democracy, but with a firmer determination to get on top, arose,—and got on… Shares Politics and government

Obsidian Eyes A. W. Exley · 2014 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate OBSIDIAN EYES is a young adult historical fantasy novel with a light steampunk twist. 1836, a world of light and dark, noble and guild. The two spheres intersect when seventeen-year-old Allie Donovan is placed at the aristocratic St Matthews Academy. More at ease with a blade than a needle, she finds herself ostracised by the girls and stalked by a Scottish lord intent on learning why she is… Shares Historical

Skies of Steel Zoë Archer · 2012 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the world of The Ether Chronicles, the Mechanical War rages on, and appearances are almost always deceiving . . . The prim professor Daphne Carlisle may be a scholar, but she's far more comfortable out in the field than lost in a stack of books. Still, when her parents are kidnapped by a notorious warlord, she knows she'll need more than quick thinking if she is to reach them… Shares Historical

Roadwork Stephen King · 1981 · ★ 3.6 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Roadwork is a thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1972–1974. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he… Shares Design and Construction

The bravo James Fenimore Cooper · 1831 · ★ 3.0 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Originally published in 1831, this novel is set in Venice in the bygone days of the Doges. It was inspired by Cooper's travels in Italy. The author has intended to give his countrymen, writes Cooper in his preface, "a picture of the social system of the soi-disant republics of the other hemisphere." Cooper aims to show, William Cullen Bryant said, that all systems which reserve power for the… Shares Politics and government

A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall

A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall Isaac Hunt · 1765 Shares Politics and government with this book.

Building Bots William Gurstelle · 2002 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Design and Construction 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 Politics and government

Stadia Geraint John · 1994 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A stadium is one of the most exciting of building types of the 1990s; designed well, they can enhance and provide a comfortable venue for great occasions. The recent Taylor Report identified necessary change and recommended improvements to spectator facilities by refurbishment or rebuilding. The facilities required have become increasingly important and complex. This authoritative and… Shares Design and Construction

The Regency Brides Collection Michelle Griep · 2017 · 609p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Seven couples must navigate society's gauntlet to secure the hand of true love.... Shares Historical

Glittering Images (Church of England) Susan Howatch · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Glittering Images is narrated by The Revd Canon Dr Charles Ashworth, a Cambridge academic who undergoes something of a spiritual and nervous breakdown after being sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury surreptitiously to investigate a menage a trois in the household of the Bishop of Starbridge. Ashworth is helped to recovery, and to realise the source of his problems by Fr Jonathan Darrow, the… Shares Cathedrals

And the shofar blew Francine Rivers · 2003 · ★ 4.2 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This is a story of a young pastor and his wife as they struggle to revitalize a church that has decline in a small community. It is engaging as the couples marriage and the congregation both go through painful but enriching growth. Shares Design and Construction

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares Politics and government

Men of Men

Men of Men Wilbur Smith · 1981 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This vivid historical novel is the second of the Ballantyne sequence of four books about the origins of Rhodesia and its later violent transformation into Zimbabwe. During the reign of Queen Victoria Englishmen answering the call of Empire voyaged out to take possession of half their known world. Their leaders were such men as Cecil Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson and Zouga Ballantyne. Some… Shares Historical

Juan de la Rosa Nataniel Aguirre · 1943 · ★ 3.5 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, this novel is narrated by one of the last surviving… Shares Historical

Robot development using Microsoft Robotics developer studio Shih-Chung Kang · 2011 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Design and Construction with this book.

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