18 books like Just Kids

What to read after Just Kids — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Letters of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens · 1966 · ★ 4.3 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer… Shares: American Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds · 1892 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Challenging This is a story of Buonarroti Simoni, to whom Michelangelo belonged, were a Florentine family of ancient burgher nobility. Shares: Artists, Biography & Memoir

Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly… Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

Oliver Goldsmith Washington Irving · 1840 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Irving wrote this biographical sketch of the poet Goldsmith from his estate, Sunnyside, near Tarrytown, N.Y. It is a biography of the english author oliver Goldsmith a sad life and he didn't profit from his work. Shares: American Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir

Kaikan fure-zu (Comic strip) Mayu Shinjo · 2004 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Things are really heating up between Lucifer and Jesus. Not only are the two supergroups battling each other to capture the top spot on the music charts ... each band's singer is courting the affections of a single girl!"--Cover p. [4]. Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

Memoranda during the war Walt Whitman · 1876 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation." "Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal… Shares: American Poets, Poets, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

Tales of a wayside inn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. Shares: American Poets, Poetry

Time and Again Jack Finney · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate [Comment by Audrey Niffenegger, on The Guardian's website][1]: Time and Again is an original; there is nothing quite like it. It is the story of Si Morley, a commercial artist who is drawing a piece of soap one ordinary day in 1970 when a mysterious man from the US Army shows up at his Manhattan office to recruit him for a secret government project. The project turns out to involve time travel;… Shares: Artists, New york

The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Poetry and prose written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow List of Poems: The song of Hiawatha Evangeline The courtship of Miles Standish The village blacksmith A Psalm of life The rainy day The light of stars God's acre The reaper and the flowers The wreck of the Hesperus The arrow and the song Footsteps of angels Endymion The arsenal at Springfield In the churchyard at Cambridge The belfry of… Shares: American Poets, Poetry

Revival Stephen King · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 413p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt when he looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later he is a man who with his beautiful wife will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs -- including Jamie's sisters and… Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

You've Been Warned James Patterson · 2007 · ★ 3.5 · 401p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, ‘don’t think, just shoot’ – pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two children and waiting for her life as a New York fashion photographer to begin. But Kristin has a major distraction: forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for… Shares: Photographers, New york

Youth and the bright Medusa Willa Cather · 1920 · 137p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Youth and the bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories about artists and the arts. Shares: Musicians, Artists

Canto a Mi Mismo Walt Whitman · 1904 · ★ 3.9 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation's most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem… Shares: American Poets, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

The prelude William Wordsworth · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth. Shares: Poets, Poetry

Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or… Shares: Artists, Biography & Memoir

Idoru William Gibson · 1996 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From first page Berkley paperback September 1997: 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently new is about to happen... Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the "signature" an individual creates simply by going about the business of living.… Shares: Rock musicians, Musicians

Among my books James Russell Lowell · 1870 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A book of essays by American poet and writer James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). There are six essays: Dryden Witchcraft Shakespeare Once More New England Two Centuries Ago Lessing Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Shares: Poets, Poetry

The biographical dictionary of musicians Rupert Hughes · 1900 · 678p · ≈ 22h · Challenging Biographies of key composers and musicians selected and abridged from Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, including Claudio Montverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Mozart, John Cage, Billie Holliday, and John Lennon. Shares: Musicians, Biography & Memoir

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