18 books like Lancelot

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

Angle of repose Wallace Stegner · 1971 · ★ 4.2 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit.… Shares: Married people in fiction, Adultery in fiction, Married people

Larry's Party Carol Shields · 1997 · ★ 3.7 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the millennium, adapting to society's changing expectations of men, Shields' elegant prose makes the trivial into the… Shares: Men in fiction, Men

Summer of the Red Wolf Morris West · 1971 · ★ 3.8 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Summer of the Red Wolf is the story of a man struggling with the complexities and torments of everyday life who travels to Scotland to fight his inner demons and discovers love, honour and himself along the way. The novel brilliantly captures the feelings of restlessness so common in these modern times. Shares: Men, Psychology

Anthem Ayn Rand · 1936 · ★ 3.6 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all traces of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted… Shares: Men in fiction, Men, Psychology

The Holy Grail and other poems Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1870 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is Alfred Tennyson's poem about the Holy Grail. It contains illustrations from W.L. Taylor. Shares: Adaptations, Arthurian romances

Tennyson's The coming of Arthur Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1891 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Shares: Adaptations, Arthurian romances

Rabbit, Run John Updike · 1960 · ★ 3.6 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a… Shares: Men, Adultery, Psychology

That Old Cape Magic Richard Russo · 2009 · ★ 3.4 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Following Bridge of Sighs--a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive… Shares: Married people in fiction, Married people

The Singing Sword (The Camulod Chronicles, Book 2) Jack Whyte · 1994 · ★ 4.4 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king.But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back… Shares: Adaptations, Arthurian romances

Treasure Box Orson Scott Card · 1996 · ★ 3.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A reclusive millionaire's hasty marriage leads to chilling revelations in the renowned author's "enthrallingly entertaining" supernatural horror novel (Booklist). Software engineer Quentin Fears was only 10 when his beloved sister died in a car accident. Since then, he withdrew from the world into books and machines. Though he's made millions with his software, he avoids companionship at all… Shares: Married people in fiction, Married people

King Arthur J. Comyns Carr · 1893 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Adaptations, Arthurian romances

King Arthur Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1848 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's poetic world moves from the alleys of London to Alpine passes, from private grief to public destiny, binding social satire, romance, and historical meditation into a single sweeping vision. In The New Timon, the grandeur of the city is set against the enduring misery of the poor, while Lucy's story reveals the hidden dignity of a homeless girl shaped by shame, maternal… Shares: Adaptations, Arthurian romances

The Painted Veil William Somerset Maugham · 1925 · ★ 4.0 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A story of the beautiful but love-starve Kitty Fane who is forced to accompany her husband to the heart of a cholera epidemic. She is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love. Shares: Adultery, Married people

The Quickie James Patterson · 2007 · ★ 3.9 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for.… Shares: Adultery in fiction, Adultery

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 · ★ 3.4 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a… Shares: Adultery in fiction, Adultery

The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain · 1934 · ★ 3.6 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amantes unidos por el ardor y la ambición. Pero no será tan fácil librarse del viejo marido. Y habrá que contar, además, con el inescrutable destino: ese cartero que siempre llama dos… Shares: Adultery in fiction, Adultery

Therese Raquin Émile Zola · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Thérèse Raquin [teʁɛz ʁakɛ̃] is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel's adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as "putrid" in a review in the newspaper Le Figaro. Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman,… Shares: Adultery in fiction, Adultery

The Life Of Sir Aglovale De Galis Clemence Housman · 1905 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A fictional biography based on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Shares: Adaptations, Arthurian romances

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