18 books like In the Dream House

What to read after In the Dream House — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Auto/Biography in the Americas

Auto/Biography in the Americas Ricia A. Chansky · 2016 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares American literature, Biography & Memoir with this book.

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 Stonewall Book Awards, Lesbians, New York Times reviewed

Borrowed Time Paul Monette · 1988 · ★ 4.4 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner of the PEN Center West literary award. Shares LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lambda Literary Awards, Gay, Biography & Memoir

Autobiography and Questions of Gender

Autobiography and Questions of Gender Shirley Neuman · 2015 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Women authors, American literature, Biography & Memoir with this book.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Light It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question… Shares Stonewall Book Awards, American literature

Gender Queer Maia Kobabe · 2019 · ★ 4.3 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of… Shares LGBTQ biography and memoir, Stonewall Book Awards, Biography & Memoir

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Proxima Five Missouri Vaun · 2018 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Geologist Dr. Leah Warren wakes after extended cryogenic hibernation to discover she’s crash-landed on a foreign planet. The sole survivor of her crew, she struggles to piece together what went wrong. Leah ventures from the ship in search of signs of life only to be captured by desert raiders. Keegan, a clan warrior, discovers Leah, weak and barely alive. Her kindness and affection for Leah… Shares Lesbians, American literature

Take the cannoli Sarah Vowell · 2000 · ★ 4.3 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "While tackling subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history, these autobiographical tales are written with a biting humor, placing Vowell solidly in the tradition of Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker. Vowell searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts… Shares Women authors, New York Times reviewed, Biography & Memoir

Drôle de garçon Shyam Selvadurai · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody… Shares Lambda Literary Awards, Gay, Stonewall Book Awards

Shorefall

Shorefall Robert Jackson Bennett · 2020 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy.“An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review A few years ago, Sancia Grado would’ve happily watched Tevanne burn. Now, she’s… Shares American literature

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Attic on Queen Street

The Attic on Queen Street Karen White · 2021 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An instant New York Times bestseller!Return to the house on Tradd Street one last time in this hauntingly spectacular finale to the bestselling series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm. After the devastating events of the past few months, the last thing Melanie Trenholm wants is to think about the future.  Why, when her husband, Jack, has asked for a separation—a separation that… Shares American literature

Long Shadows

Long Shadows David Baldacci · 2022 · ★ 4.4 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate “Memory Man” Amos Decker—an FBI consultant with perfect recall—delves into a bewildering double homicide in this thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man."Baldacci delivers, every time!" —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears… Shares American literature

Dawnshard

Dawnshard Brandon Sanderson · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares American literature with this book.

The Drowning Kind

The Drowning Kind Jennifer McMahon · 2021 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021In this “blisteringly suspenseful tale that will keep you up at night” (Wendy Webb, author of Daughters of the Lake), a woman returns to the old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming ​pool…but she’s not the pool’s only victim.Be careful what you wish for. When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes… Shares American literature

The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street

The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street Karen White · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy—after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden… Shares American literature

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

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