18 books like La place

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

Picture Me Gone Meg Rosoff · 2000 · ★ 3.4 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing. Shares Pères et filles, Fathers and daughters, New York Times reviewed, Romans

Mind of my mind Octavia E. Butler · 1977 · ★ 4.2 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Mind of My Mind is the second novel in Butler's Patternist series and is the prequel to her earlier novel Patternmaster. Shares Pères et filles, Fathers and daughters, Romans

Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 514p · ≈ 17h · Moderate A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite… Shares Pères et filles, New York Times reviewed, Romans

The Paris Daughter

The Paris Daughter Kristin Harmel · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Instant New York Times bestseller!“A gorgeous, gut-wrenching” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) historical novel about two mothers facing unthinkable choices as the Nazis invade France—from the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a… Shares France

Proposal

Proposal Meg Cabot · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Light The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.That’s… Shares Romans

The picturesque

The picturesque Christopher Hussey · 1927 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General with this book.

El sí de las ninas Leandro Fernández de Moratín · 1806 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Romance literature, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Ameto

Ameto Giovanni Boccaccio · 1520 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Literary Criticism, General, Romans with this book.

From Puritanism to postmodernism Richard Ruland · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, New York Times reviewed, General with this book.

Perilous Cemetery

Perilous Cemetery Nancy Black · 2019 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Romance literature, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

American Icon

American Icon Bryce G. Hoffman · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Moderate At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, the man who had saved Boeing, Ford had put together a bold plan to unify… Shares New York Times reviewed

Imagining Culture Jonathan Hart · 1996 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Night Film Marisha Pessl · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he… Shares Fathers and daughters, New York Times reviewed, Romans

Between Two Fires

Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising… Shares France

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus

Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus Walter Hawkesworth · 1988 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson · 2023 · ★ 4.4 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate \#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from… Shares General

Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica John Kendrick Bangs · 1895 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares France with this book.

L'Ecole Des Femmes Molière · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Chrysalde. Vous venez, dites-vous, pour lui donner la main ? Arnolphe. Oui, je veux terminer la chose dans demain. Chrysalde. Nous sommes ici seuls ; et l'on peut, ce me semble, sans craindre d'etre ouis, y discourir ensemble : voulez-vous qu'en ami je vous ouvre mon coeur ? Votre dessein pour vous me fait trembler de peur ; et de quelque facon que vous tourniez l'affaire, prendre femme est a… Shares Literary Criticism

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