18 books like Take Back the Night

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The Ship With No Name Christopher Nicole · 1987 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Dolittle Raid of April 1942 demonstrated to the world that the Japanese mainland, Tokyo itself, could be successfully attacked by a determined enemy, thus the cry went up for retaliation. The obvious solution is the destruction of that portion of the U.S. Navy that survived Pearl Harbor. But one man, flying ace and national hero Keiko Hatatsune, dreams of something even more dramatic, more… Shares: War Fiction

The haunted major Robert Marshall · 1932 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "Inspired by the new craze for golf that had developed at the dawn of the 20th century, this comic story recounts the efforts of sports-mad Major Gore to beat Lindsay, a young golf champion. The Major receives supernatural assistance in his cause from the ghost of Cardinal Smeaton, a Scottish renaissance figure who is still nursing a grudge against his opponent's family." - - Description by… Shares: Modern fiction, Fiction - General

吾輩は猫である 夏目漱石 · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Written over the course of 1904 through 1906, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant string of… Shares: Modern fiction, Fiction - General

The thunder and the shouting Christopher Nicole · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A Novel of War-Ravaged Poland. Shares: War Fiction

Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega · 1909 · ★ 3.6 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Con probabilidad la más conocida y trascendente de las obras teatrales de Lope de Vega, por su explicito contenido social y critico, representado en la rebelión unánime de todo un pueblo contra su comendador. Los hechos se desarrollan a partir del intento del tirano comendador de forzar a Laurencia, hija del alcalde. Una venganza "justa" y una frase para la posteridad ("Fuente Ovejuna lo hizo")… Shares: Modern fiction, Fiction - General, History

Badge of Glory Douglas Reeman · 1924 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman. Discover the master of the naval adventure thriller.1850: the age of Empire, the age of contrast, the age of dramatic change - one which would determine the destinies of nations as well as of men.Captain Philip Blackwood of the Royal Marines rejoins his ship, HMS Audacious that August, anxious to get back into action. Per Mare - Per Terram is the Marines'… Shares: War & Military, History

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · ★ 3.6 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation. Shares: War & Military, History

The Pagan Lord Bernard Cornwell · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate As the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, prepare to invade England, Uhtred, who is now out of favor with the new king, leads a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, but is soon drawn into the bloodiest battle yet that will decide the fate of the entire English nation. Shares: War & Military, History

American Pastoral Philip Roth · 1997 · ★ 3.9 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Moderate American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a… Shares: Vietnam War, History

The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 530p · ≈ 17h · Moderate A compulsive read' Kate Atkinson, author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumManhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war was over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara - an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone - a US Army journalist… Shares: War & Military, History

The Flame Bearer Bernard Cornwell · 2016 · ★ 4.4 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With Britain in an uneasy state of peace, Uhtred of Bebbanburg at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago -- and which his scheming cousin still occupies. But he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true. -- Shares: War & Military, History

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: Fiction - General, History

Die Analphabetin Hanna Johansen · 1982 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Die Analphabetin ist ein fünfjähriges Mädchen, von dessen Leben im Sommer 1944 berichtet wird, von seinem Alltag am Rande des Krieges, in einer Zeit der Angst, in der die Erwachsenen Mühe haben, die Fragen des Kindes zu beantworten. Shares: War Fiction

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies C.S. Forester · 1956 · ★ 4.2 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Moderate As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. Shares: War Fiction, History

Hornblower in the West Indies C. S. Forester · 1958 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small… Shares: War Fiction, History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares: History

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares: History

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: History

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