18 books like Girl, Woman, Other

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The years Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Moderate A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

After Delores

After Delores Sarah Schulman · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel is a noirish tale about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her; her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy, and ultimately even violent. After Delores is a fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side's lesbian subculture in the 1980s. Shares LGBTQ novels, Lesbians, New York Times reviewed

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

聊齋誌異 Pu Songling · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Various stories Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

The gold coast Nelson DeMille · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

This is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that… Shares LGBT, English literature

Jane Austen Louise Ross · 1995 · ★ 5.0 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans with this book.

Grand Sophy

Grand Sophy Georgette Heyer · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives. When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

White Nights

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

Flappers and Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes the stories "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" and "The Four Fists." Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.5 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

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 Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Romans

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Departure from the Script

Departure from the Script Jae · 2014 · ★ 4.0 **Love doesn’t always follow a script** Aspiring actress Amanda Clark and photographer Michelle Osinski are two women burned by love and not looking to test the fire again. And even if they were, it certainly wouldn’t be with each other. Amanda has never been attracted to a butch woman before, and Michelle personifies the term butch. Having just landed a role on a hot new TV show, she’s… Shares Lesbian, Lesbians

Falling Hard

Falling Hard Jae · 2017 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate **Can a womanizing surgeon and a single mom make it work?** Dr. Jordan Williams devotes her life to two things: saving patients in the operating room and pleasuring her latest conquest in the bedroom. Her idea of commitment is spending a few hours together in bed. Single mom Emma Larson is Jordan’s polar opposite. Family and fidelity mean everything to her. After an ugly divorce from her… Shares Lesbian, Lesbians

Under a Falling Star

Under a Falling Star Jae · 2014 · ★ 3.9 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn't off to a good start. Her first assignment—decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby—results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company's second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper. Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound,… Shares Lesbian, Lesbians

Purposefully Accidental

Purposefully Accidental G. Benson · 2022 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate **An unfortunate accident, an old grudge, and a Sapphic fake romance.** Since A-List actress and Hollywood’s sweetheart Wren Acker came out, not only is she at the top of the acting world; she’s also crush number one for her queer fanbase. Loving life, loving her job, loving her cat—everything is fantastic. Except that lack of any kind of private life. When a car accident brings her to the… Shares Lesbian, Lesbians

From Fan to Forever

From Fan to Forever Tiana Warner · 2022 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **An age-gap lesbian celebrity romance about how much you’d risk to have your dream.** Talented A-lister Cate Whitney is the gorgeous middle-aged movie star almost every lesbian has a crush on. Rachel Janssen, an introverted medical physics student, is no exception. So when her celebrity crush starts filming near her Vancouver apartment, she can’t believe her luck. A chance encounter… Shares Lesbian, Lesbians

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