18 books like Septiembre

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

All the Little Moments G. Benson · 2016 · ★ 4.4 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Moderate successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Everything changes abruptly when her brother’s and sister-in-law’s deaths devastate her and her family. Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn’t even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their… Shares: Familles, Families

The Whiteoak brothers Mazo de la Roche · 1953 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining broker whose new venture promises miracles. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The raiders, being some passages in the life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt Samuel Rutherford Crockett · 1893 · ★ 4.1 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Crockett’s ‘breakthrough’ and most famous novel, first published in 1894, this is part of a loose trilogy of smugglers and gypsies stories featuring the Herons, the Maxwells and the Faas. Stevensonesque in style, it is unique in its descriptions of Galloway’s coast and hills and still thrills a modern audience. ‘'The Raiders ' vibrates with sufficient dramatic action for a dozen ordinary… Shares: Scotland, Romance

Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger · 2013 · ★ 4.3 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community. Shares: Familles, Families

The eternal wonder Pearl S. Buck · 2013 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love. Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her… Shares: Familles, Families, Romance

Twilight's Child V. C. Andrews · 1991 · ★ 4.3 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate As Mrs. James Gary Longchamp, Dawn is blissfully happy. But a legacy of deceit and betrayal still haunts her... At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel... and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own. Yet Dawn cannot quell her… Shares: Families, Romance

The silver spoon John Galsworthy · 1921 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Evening Star Larry McMurtry · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Een ruimdenkende bejaarde dame uit Texas ondervindt de problemen van het ouder worden. Vervolg op "Terms of endearment." Shares: Domestic fiction, 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: Domestic fiction, Families

Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Moderate A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright." Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Pigs in heaven Barbara Kingsolver · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families, Romance

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · ★ 3.7 · 801p · ≈ 26h · Demanding The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · ★ 4.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man. He… Shares: Scotland, Domestic fiction

The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox Maggie O'Farrell · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In Edinburgh in the 1930s, the Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme… Shares: Scotland, Domestic fiction

Searching for Caleb Anne Tyler · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Dark Witch Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: County Mao, Ireland. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. There she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O'Dwyer, and they invite her into their lives. When Iona lands a job at the local… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families, Romance

The Mad Wife Meagan Church · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live.They called it hysteria. She called it survival.Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s housewife.… Shares: Romance

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