18 books like Oracle Night

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

You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe · 1940 · ★ 3.9 · 727p · ≈ 24h · Challenging George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, American literature

Palm Sunday Kurt Vonnegut · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.” From… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, Authors, American literature

Misery Stephen King · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

The Life of Ian Fleming John Pearson · 1966 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Through extensive research and examination of private papers, this book exposes the fact that although Fleming might have denied the connection, the Bond books were in fact autobiographical. Shares: Novelists, Authorship, Authors

Quand j'étais vieux Georges Simenon · 1970 · ★ 3.6 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 421 S. 18 cm Shares: Notebooks, Novelists, Authors

I am Mary Dunne Brian Moore · 1966 · ★ 3.7 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate From the award-winning author of 'The Colour of Blood', this is the story of Mary Dunne. Mary has had several past lives and more than one husband - her true nature is revealed in this brilliant exploration of female desire and sexuality. Shares: New york, Romance & Relationships, Psychology

The English notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1870 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The author's notebooks.According to Wikipedia: ""Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer." Shares: Notebooks, American Novelists, Authors

Stand before your God Paul Watkins · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Watkins re-creates the joy and pain of growing up as he recalls his own experiences at two of Britain's greatest boarding schools, Dragon and Eton. Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

The French and Italian notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1871 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Challenging A travel writing by Hawthrone that is very occasional in nature. This travel writing also reflects his interesting observations and his descriptions that have been penned down in the form of huge paragraphs . Shares: Notebooks, American Novelists

Calamity town Ellery Queen · 1942 · ★ 4.1 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Ellery Queen moves into the small town of Wrightsville, somewhere in New England, in order to get some peace and quiet so that he can write a book. As a result of renting a furnished house, he becomes peripherally involved in the story of Jim Haight and Nora Wright. Nora's father is president of the Wrightsville National bank, "oldest family in town", and when the head cashier Jim Haight became… Shares: Novelists, Authors

The Magnolia Palace Fiona Davis · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions.Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For… Shares: New york, American literature

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various… Shares: American Novelists, Novelists, Authors

Tales of lonely trails Zane Grey · 1922 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Nonnezoshe. - - Colorado trails. - - Roping lions in the Grand Canyon. - - Tonto basin. - - Death valley. Shares: American Novelists, Novelists

The Web and the Rock Thomas Wolfe · 1937 · 695p · ≈ 23h · Challenging George Webber, a man raised and schooled in the south, moves to New York City where he aspires to become a successful writer, but his ambition is sidetracked when he becomes tragically obsessed with the beautiful, wealthy, and married socialite Esther Jack. Shares: American Novelists, New york, Romance & Relationships

Envy Sandra Brown · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Living on a remote island under an assumed name, novelist Parker Evans guards his secrets well. Fascinated by this reclusive genius, publisher Maris Matherly-Reed decides to pursue him. But this new project threatens an old commitment, a commitment at the very center of her life. Envy has all the ingredients of a Sandra Brown beach read bestseller Shares: Novelists, Authorship

Martin Eden Jack London · 1908 · ★ 4.5 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Jack London's Martin Eden was first published in 1909 and is the story of a young writer's quest for celebrity and love. Much loved by writers who identify with Martin's belief that when he posted a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' that automatically… Shares: Roman, Authors, American literature

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: Authorship, American literature

About the book Oracle Night →