18 books like La casa verde

What to read after La casa verde — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Doctor Sleep Stephen King · 2013 · ★ 4.4 · 505p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone… Shares: Bien y mal, Novela, Good and evil

Inés del alma mía Isabel Allende · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World. Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After… Shares: Peru, Novela

Memoria de mis putas tristes Gabriel García Márquez · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de la música clásica, nada aficionado de las mascotas y lleno de manías. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imaginó que de ese modo encontraría el verdadero amor."-- P. [4] of cover. Shares: Prostitutes, Novela

Fanny Erica Jong · 1980 · ★ 3.7 · 505p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review." Shares: Prostitutes, Young women

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

Memoirs of Fanny Hill John Cleland · 1749 · ★ 3.3 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Memoirs of Fanny Hill was written in debtor's prison in 1784 and was the first modern erotic novel in English. A young woman, Fanny Hill, is forced by poverty to go into service, but is tricked into becoming a prostitute instead. She is then saved by her love, only to have his jealous father send him from the country some months later. She moves from one lover to the next, gaining maturity with… Shares: Prostitutes, Young women

Die unendliche Geschichte Michael Ende · 1979 · ★ 4.2 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Ein geheimnisvolles Buch schlägt Bastian in seinen Bann: Die unendliche Geschichte. Begeistert nimmt er teil an den wilden Abenteuern ihres Helden Atréju und an dessen gefährlichen Auftrag: Das Traumreich Phantásien und seine Herrscherin, die Kindliche Kaiserin, zu retten. Mit der Zeit jedoch spürt Bastian, dass er mehr als nur ein unbeteiligter Zuschauer ist. Bis er sich unversehens selbst in… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

Out From Boneville Jeff Smith · 1993 · ★ 4.2 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone - are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'Ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

Eyes of the Storm Jeff Smith · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Eyes of the Storm is the third book in the Bone series. It collects issues 12-19 of Jeff Smiths Bone comic book series along with 5 previously unpublished story pages and 9 new illustrations. It marks the conclusion of the first part of the saga, titled "Vernal Equinox". The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white form in 1996. Paperback and hardback coloured… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

The Great Cow Race Jeff Smith · 1920 · ★ 4.1 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Great Cow Race is the second book in the Bone series. It collects issues 7-11 of Jeff Smiths self-published Bone graphic novels, along with the short story "Up on the Roof" which was originally published in Wizard Presents: Bone 13½. The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white form in 1996. Paperback and hardback coloured editions were released in 2005 by… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

Ghost Circles Jeff Smith · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Book 1 of the Circulatim trilogyA gay teen, coming-of-age romance with spiritual and religious overtones that stands on its own, though the first part of a trilogy.287K words.As Alex's sixteenth birthday arrives, his family is planning one party while his best friends plan another. That his friends are keeping where their party is to be held a secret bothers him. Secrets can be fun, but they can… Shares: Bien y mal, Good and evil

Robots and Empire Isaac Asimov · 1985 · ★ 4.2 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Esta quinta novela de la «Serie de los robots» supone un sensacional hito en la galaxia de ciencia ficción de Asimov y constituye la apasionante continuación del bestseller Los robots del amanecer . En Robots e imperio vemos cómo el futuro del universo corre peligro. Aunque se han debilitado las fuerzas de los siniestros Spacers, el doctor Kelden Amadiro no ha olvidado -ni perdonado- su… Shares: Novela, Science Fiction

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag,… Shares: Novela, Science Fiction

Armageddon 2419 AD Philip Francis Nowlan · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate In Armageddon - 2419 A.D., Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new warrior-women, Wilma Deering, Rogers soon become a central figure in using newly-developed scientific weapons -… Shares: Science Fiction

Star Hunter Andre Norton · 1961 · ★ 3.9 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala, former pilot turned safari guide Ras Hume schemes to collect the reward for finding a missing heir to a fortune. A busboy from local dive bar is brainwashed into believing he is the missing heir, but he soon begins to doubt his own memories. This standalone story was originally published in 1961 as part of a double title paperback by Ace Books along with… Shares: Science Fiction

Columbus of Space Garrett Putman Serviss · 1911 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The year was 1909 and Garrett Putnam Serviss was already a respected science writer for the Hearst newspaper group. Serviss’ reputation was such that his articles appeared in almost every major American magazine. Beginning in January of that year Frank Munsey’s All-Story magazine began the serialization of Serviss’ epic science fiction adventure A Columbus of Space. Just three months earlier the… Shares: Science Fiction

Black Canaan Robert E. Howard · 1978 · ★ 3.6 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Black Canaan by Robert E. Howard is a carefully prepared Good Old Pages Publishing digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful… Shares: Science Fiction

The People of the Crater Andre Norton · 2009 · ★ 3.2 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the Ancient Ones . . . and establish his own destiny in this hidden land!Andre Norton's first work, originally published in 1947 under the pseudonym "Andrew North." Shares: Science Fiction

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