18 books like Fall of Giants

What to read after Fall of Giants — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 1876 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in… Shares: Historical Fiction, History

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl · 1964 · ★ 4.2 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later. In… Shares: Community pick

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged… Shares: Community pick

Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary · 1955 · ★ 4.0 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Beezus and Ramona is a 1955 children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is the first of Cleary's books to focus on Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice, known as Beezus. Beezus and Ramona is realistic fiction, written from nine-year-old Beezus's point of view, as she struggles to get along with her four-year-old sister. Eventually becoming the first book of the Ramona series, it was… Shares: Community pick

The dark forest Hugh Walpole · 1916 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Challenging John Durward and John Trenchard are two Englishmen who join a company of Russian doctors, nurses, and orderlies working on the Russian side of the Eastern Front at the height of World War I. Durward, the primary narrator, is a detached and seemingly-objective observer of events; his friend Trenchard is a dreamy, clumsy, and naive man whose fiancee, Marie Ivanova, is serving alongside him as a… Shares: World War I, World War, Historical Fiction

The appetite of tyranny Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1915 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The mere facts of the story are about the present European conflagration, includes other short works and essays. Shares: World War I, World War

In Secret Robert W. Chambers · 1919 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The case in question concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds of women and scores of men sat opening and reading thousands of letters for the Bureau of P. C. - whatever that may mean. Shares: World War I, World War

Winter of the World Ken Follett · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 960p · ≈ 32h · Moderate Continuing the story of five interrelated families as they become entangled in events from the beginning of the twentieth century, from the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. "En esta magnífica novela épica, Ken Follett conduce al lector a través de una Europa en ruinas,… Shares: Twentieth century, World War, History

Escenas matritenses Ramón de Mesonero Romanos · 1862 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Challenging El interés de Mesonero Romanos por su ciudad natal dio como fruto algunas de sus obras más importantes, como esta, en la que reflejó la moralidad matritense. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

The Great War Michael Morpurgo · 2014 · ★ 3.5 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War. It is a collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. Each object illuminates an aspect of life during the war, and each story reminds us of the millions of individual lives that were changed forever by the fighting. Shares: World War I, World War, Historical Fiction, History

Los funerales de la Mamá Grande Gabriel García Márquez · 1962 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Huit contes écrits en 1962. "L'enfance de l'art", comme le note A. Rinaldi. Ou plus explicitement des esquisses pour ce qui deviendra ##Cent ans de solitude##. Des textes tropicaux, baroques, avec des reflets fantastiques. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Novela, Social life and customs

The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes - the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met - the summer, as it turns… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Social life and customs

Inés del alma mía Isabel Allende · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World. Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After… Shares: Historia, Novela, Ficción, Historical Fiction

The Burning Shore Wilbur Smith · 1998 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Moderate 'Smith will take you on an exciting, taut and thrilling journey you will never forget' - Sun'With Wilbur Smith the action is never further than the turn of a page' - Independent'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror LOVE IN A TIME OF WAR. HOPE IN A TIME OF CRISIS. One of the greatest fighter pilots of the Great War, Michael Courtney, is saved by the French noblewoman Centaine… Shares: World War I, World War

Казаки (Kazaki) Лев Толстой · 1887 · ★ 4.0 The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853. In… Shares: Soviet union, Social life and customs, History

Storia della bambina perduta Elena Ferrante · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 614p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ostatni tom bestsellerowej serii, którą otwiera Genialna przyjaciółka. W skład tetralogii wchodzą również Historia nowego nazwiska oraz Historia ucieczki. Wszystkie powieści odniosły międzynarodowy sukces i zostały docenione także w środowisku pisarskim. Elenę i Lilę łączy niełatwa więź oparta na miłości, nienawiści, zazdrości, dominacji i podległości. Wspólnie wychowywały się na przedmieściach… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction

Vittorio the Vampire Anne Rice · 1999 · ★ 3.8 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out… Shares: Historia, Novela, Historical Fiction, History

Nine Stories J. D. Salinger · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Social life and customs

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