14 books like Galatea 2.2

What to read after Galatea 2.2 — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe · 1940 · ★ 3.9 · 727p · ≈ 24h · Challenging George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

Palm Sunday Kurt Vonnegut · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.” From… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, American literature

Misery Stephen King · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

Oracle Night Paul Auster · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A novelist recovers from an accident. He begins to write again, after buying a blue portugese notebook. The words flow, but at some point, strange things begin to happen: his beloved wife behaves strangely, fiction and reality get mixed up, and what about this strange stationary shop where he bought the notebook? It disappears over night. Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, American literature

Stand before your God Paul Watkins · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Watkins re-creates the joy and pain of growing up as he recalls his own experiences at two of Britain's greatest boarding schools, Dragon and Eton. Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

Tales of lonely trails Zane Grey · 1922 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Nonnezoshe. - - Colorado trails. - - Roping lions in the Grand Canyon. - - Tonto basin. - - Death valley. Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

Any human heart William Boyd · 2002 · ★ 4.3 · 503p · ≈ 16h · Moderate ANY HUMAN HEART is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf. Shares: Novelists, English literature

Agency William Gibson · 2020 · ★ 3.8 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING” returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral.   William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel… Shares: Artificial Intelligence, American literature

King Arthur's Modern Return Debra N. Mancoff · 2014 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend. With an Introduction by noted scholar Raymond H. Thompson and 13 essays by authors from the… Shares: English literature, American literature

Modern Arthurian literature Alan Lupack · 1992 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate First published in 1992. This is a collection of works around the legend of King Arthur from both English and American sources. They range from the sixteenth century to the 1980s and includes authors such as Spenser, Swift, Fielding, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris, Carr, Hawthorne, Pyle, Richard Wilbur and Wendy M. Mnookin. Shares: English literature, American literature

Lectures in America Gertrude Stein · 1935 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne,… Shares: English literature, American literature

The Evil Image Patricia L. Skarda · 1981 · ★ 4.3 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited 2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury… Shares: English literature, American literature

Henry VI, Part 3 William Shakespeare · 1600 · ★ 3.7 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Shares: English literature, American literature

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