18 books like Mockingbird

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

Brother Ania Ahlborn · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what's buried in the Morrows' backyard. But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take… Shares: Brothers, Families

The Italian Girl Iris Murdoch · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund. Shares: Brothers, Families

I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson · 2014 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three… Shares: Death, Family life, Families, Young Adult

The Little Friend Donna Tartt · 2000 · ★ 3.5 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer. Shares: Brothers, Girls, Death

Blankets Craig Thompson · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 587p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Loosely based on the author's life, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way. Shares: Brothers, Family life, Families

We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera. Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile about: stealing guavas, gifts from NGOs, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. But they all want to go to the real paradise in America or Britain. Shares: Girls, Family life, Families

The Outsiders S. E. Hinton · 1967 · ★ 4.4 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs… Shares: Brothers, Family life, Families, Young Adult

Blue Yonder Alan Savage · 2005 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A family drama encompassing both world wars. Having earned a medal at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Sergeant Mark Bayley, 4th Hussars, is posted back to England and volunteers for the Royal Flying Corps, becoming an ace with 23 'kills' to his credit, before being shot down over the German lines in March 1918. While in a prison hospital he falls in love with German nurse Karolina von Bitterman.… Shares: Family relationships, Brothers

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius Dave Eggers · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents. The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a… Shares: Brothers, Death, Families

Wish You Well David Baldacci · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and… Shares: Family relationships, Girls

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants Louise Rennison · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicolson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her. Shares: Family life, Families, Young Adult

Harriet Spies Again Helen Ericson · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Harriet M. Welsch is up to her old spying tricks when her beloved nanny Ole Golly, who had married and moved to Montreal, returns without her husband, Harriet's friend Sport announces he has a crush on a schoolmate, and the people across the street appear to be holding a child hostage. Shares: Family life, Families, Schools

Scarlett fever Maureen Johnson · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Scarlett, who is beginning to get over her break-up with Eric, stays busy as assistant to her theatrical-agent friend who is not only promoting Scarlett's brother Spencer, but also a new client whose bad-boy brother has transferred to Scarlett's school. Shares: Family life, Families, Schools, Young Adult

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson · 1985 · ★ 4.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Shares: Family relationships, Families

Ramona the Pest Beverly Cleary · 1968 · ★ 4.1 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary, is the second book of the Ramona series and the first to focus on Ramona Quimby as the protagonist. This children's book chronicles the adventures of Ramona's first few months at kindergarten. The book's title is derived from the characterization of Ramona as a "pest" by many, including her older sister Beatrice, known as "Beezus." Ramona the Pest was first… Shares: Family life, Families, Schools

Selection Day Aravind Adiga · 2001 · ★ 3.2 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize­-winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming-of-age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves. Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as… Shares: Brothers, Families

Alice in Lace Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1996 · ★ 4.1 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Moderate While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions. Shares: Family life, Families, Schools

The beach house James Patterson · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldnt be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brothers last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid… Shares: Brothers, Death

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