18 books like Dietland

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Academy street Mary Costello · 2014 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess… Shares: Emotions, Literary, Coming-of-age

Asymmetry Lisa Halliday · 2018 · ★ 3.5 · 281p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Explores the imbalances that spark and sustain dramatic human relations, tracing the overlapping stories of a young American editor's relationship with a famous older writer, an unexpected New York romance during the early years of the Iraq War and an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers in Heathrow. Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

Talent Juliet Lapidos · 2019 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places. Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help. Shares: Obesity, Friendship

The Morning Watch James Agee · 1950 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good Friday in 1923. Part I opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer vigil in the school's… Shares: Emotions, Coming-of-age

The visitors Sally Beauman · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "Built around Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, this evocative novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sally Beauman blends fact and fiction to recreate a lost world that's still fiercely enthralling and relevant today"-- Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age, Friendship

Our young man Edmund White · 2016 · ★ 3.3 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 282 pages ; 20 cm Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

The Girls from Corona del Mar Rufi Thorpe · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "An emotional novel about friendships made in youth and how these bonds-- challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance--either break or endure"-- Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age, Friendship

All the ugly and wonderful things Bryn Greenwood · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing… Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 村上春樹 · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Tsukuru Tazaki reexamines his simple life as he searches for his closest high school friends to discover why he was suddenly ostracized from their group. "Cuando Tsukuru Tazakiera adolescente, se sentaba durante horas en las estaciones para ver pasar los trenes. Ahora, con treinta y seis años, es un ingeniero que diseña y construye estaciones de ferrocarril y que lleva una vida tranquila, tal… Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age, Friendship

Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney · 2017 · ★ 3.7 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home… Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age, Friendship

The Girl with All the Gifts Mike Carey · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about… Shares: Emotions, Coming-of-age

A good country Laleh Khadivi · 2017 · ★ 3.8 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels… Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

The Idiot Elif Batuman · 1969 · ★ 3.6 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect. Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

A Separate Peace John Knowles · 1966 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over sixty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War… Shares: Literary, Friendship

The Days of Anna Madrigal Armistead Maupin · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided. Shares: Emotions, Friendship

Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid · 2019 · ★ 3.8 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing… Shares: Literary, Coming-of-age

Judy Moody was in a Mood Megan McDonald · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage. Shares: Emotions, Friendship

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