18 books like Christine Falls

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

Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 · ★ 3.9 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, *Brideshead Revisited* looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles… Shares Catholics, Upper class

Анна Каренина Лев Толстой · 1876 · ★ 4.1 · 651p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of… Shares Upper class, Social conditions

Broken Harbor

Broken Harbor Tana French · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The mesmerizing fourth novel of the Dublin murder squad by New York Times bestselling author Tana French Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands. On one of the half-built, half-abandoned… Shares Dublin

Cha guan She Lao · 1980 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Social conditions with this book.

Flood Anna Clare · 2007 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Social conditions with this book.

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 Social conditions

The Scarlet Feather Maeve Binchy · 1686 · ★ 4.0 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Challenging A fascinating look at large, diverse Irish families with sub plots and characters from the hard working just getting started to those in the upper echelons with challenges of their own. A delightful book. Shares Dublin

Back Passage

Back Passage James Lear · 2006 · ★ 3.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it's with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch's observant eye pegs… Shares Upper class

Cycle of the Werewolf Stephen King · 1983 · ★ 3.6 · 135p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A werewolf is stalking Tarker's Mills and only young, wheelchair-bound Marty Coslaw suspects the truth. He enlists the help of his black sheep uncle to identify the shape shifter and destroy him. ([source][1]) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/cycle_of_the_werewolf.html Shares Catholics

The daylight gate Jeanette Winterson · 2012 · ★ 3.4 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass. Shares Catholics

Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw · 1919 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad… Shares Upper class

The summer of the Danes Edith Pargeter · 1991 · ★ 4.1 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England--almost a peace. For several months there has been little actual fighting between the forces of King Stephen and those of Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers it a blessing to live in these peaceful times. Still, a little excitement--and some time spent outside the… Shares Catholics

Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Challenging A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright." Shares Social conditions

Jezebel's Daughter Wilkie Collins · 1880 · ★ 3.8 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging MR. DAVID GLENNEY CONSULTS HIS MEMORY AND OPENS THE STORY Shares Upper class

The Devil's Advocate Morris West · 1959 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate *The Devil's Advocate*, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of saint­hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate—and to try to untangle the web of facts, rumors, and outright lies that surround Nerone's… Shares Catholics

Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne Jean-Pierre Vernant · 1974 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This book is a stimulating and largely persuasive collection of essays on the interrelations between social institutions and mythical thinking in ancient Greek society. What is fundamental to the author's approach is a determination to see the meaning of Greek myth and of Greek social institutions in patterns of association and opposition, in the articulations of a system of ideas. It is in this… Shares Social conditions

The Heidenmauer (The heathens' wall); or the Benedictines James Fenimore Cooper · 1832 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines – A Story of the Rhine is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1832. The novel is a socio-political novel set in 16th century Bavaria that focuses on the competition between various socio-political classes and the tension caused by the Reformation.The Heidenmauer is Cooper's second novel in what one critic would call his European Trilogy,… Shares Social conditions

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but… Shares Upper class

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