12 books like Fathers; a novel in the form of a memoir

What to read after Fathers; a novel in the form of a memoir — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Chosen Chaim Potok · 1966 · ★ 4.1 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance of a baseball game, and a terrible accident, that leads them to be lifelong friends Shares: Jewish fiction, Jewish families, Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

The Wonder Spot Melissa Bank · 2005 · ★ 3.3 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Follows the quest of Sophie Applebaum for her own identity--who she is, what she loves, whom she loves, and occasionally whom she feels others should love--over the course of 25 years. Shares: Jewish fiction, Jewish families, Domestic fiction

Bread givers Anzia Yezierska · 1925 · ★ 3.7 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence. Shares: Jewish fiction, Jewish families, Domestic fiction

Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis, Jr,… Shares: Jewish families, Domestic fiction

Mr. Scarborough's Family Anthony Trollope · 1883 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Demanding It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book - though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

Daddy Danielle Steel · 1989 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate El mundo alrededor de Oliver Watson parece disolverse cuando Sarah, su esposa durante dieciocho an os, regresa a Harvard para graduarse. Oliver es abandonado a su suerte, con tres hijos y una libertad que jama s deseo. Cuando la madre de Oliver muere, su padre tambie n ha cambiado: ma s osado que su hijo y con menos tiempo por vivir, George Watson pronto reencontrara el amor y un nuevo… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · ★ 4.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man. He… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

Ordinary heroes Scott Turow · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words, "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

The Pardon James Grippando · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate An estranged father and son -- one a brilliant defense lawyer, the other the governor of Florida -- must overcome their differences to stop a cunning psychopath.Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent --… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

Home Marilynne Robinson · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Hailed as "incandescent," "magnificent," and "a literary miracle" (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead. The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction

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