18 books like The adulterants

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

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture Helena Feder · 2016 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Gadis Pantai Pramoedya Ananta Toer · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken… Shares Bildungsromans

Sinister street Sir Compton Mackenzie · 1913 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world.… Shares Bildungsromans

Der Nachsommer Adalbert Stifter · 1900 · 927p · ≈ 30h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At… Shares Bildungsromans

An Accidental Woman Barbara Delinsky · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Heather Malone has made her home in Lake Henry for the last fourteen years. Known for her kind, gentle nature, she lives with Micah Smith, a widower, and his two young daughters. When the FBI takes her into custody on charges of flight to avoid prosecution, purportedly for a murder that took place in California, the local reaction is stunned disbelief. Yet, when those closest to her, including… Shares Journalists, Bildungsromans

A Reporter's Life Walter Cronkite · 1996 · 637p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Walter Cronkite gives an account of his personal life as that of a reporter and T.V. newscaster. Shares Journalists

Fair Warning

Fair Warning Michael Connelly · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, as Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar—until now.   Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a… Shares Journalists

Night Heron

Night Heron Adam Brookes · 2014 · ★ 3.9 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Former British spy Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction from Beijing. Shares Journalists

Neither 5 nor 3 Helen MacInnes · 1951 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Journalists with this book.

Of time and the river Thomas Wolfe · 1935 · ★ 4.2 · 912p · ≈ 30h · Challenging This book continues the story of Eugene Gant, the protagonist in Look Homeward Angel. If you have read and liked Angel you should definitely follow through and read this(vol 1 and 2). Autobiographical in nature.. Shares Bildungsromans

En cas de malheur Georges Simenon · 1956 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Adultery with this book.

Everyday Jews Yehoshue Perle · 2007 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

The Four Pools Mystery Jean Webster · 1908 Terry Patten, star-reporter for the The Post-Dispatch, is called to investigate a case of missing bonds allegedly stolen by a ghost from a safe at Four-Pools Plantation in Virginia when Colonel Gaylord, the patriarch of the plantation, is found murdered. Shares Journalists

The carnival at Bray Jessie Ann Foley · 2014 · ★ 3.9 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate his promising debut, set in the heyday of grunge, tells the story of Maggie Lynch, a displaced Chicagoan and grunge music fan, living in a quiet town (Bray) on the Irish Sea. Maggie was uprooted from her friends, her music scene, and her beloved Uncle Kevin when her romantically fickle mother married her latest boyfriend, resulting in a move to his hometown. During her time of difficult… Shares Bildungsromans

Der Irrtum des großen Zauberers Günter Braun · 1972 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Im Lande Plikato herrschen seltsame Verhältnisse. Die oberste Gewalt liegt in den Händen eines Menschen, die nichtgewaltausübende Mehrheit der Bevölkerung besteht ebenfalls aus Menschen. Zwischen beiden Polen aber stehen Maschinen, die mit Regierungsbefugnissen ausgestattet sind. Da kein Mensch sich so etwas gefallen lassen würde, wird die Bevölkerung eingeschläfert und verdummt... Shares Satire

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth Xiaolu Guo · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Partners Grace Livingston Hill · 1980 · ★ 4.9 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Two lonely young people join together in saving a life and learning to love. Without friends or family, young Dale Hathaway relied on faith to brighten the lonely boarding house existence that had become her life. Pursued by unwanted lovers, Dale longed for a real home and a man she could love. Then one night an abandoned baby on her doorstep showed the way to a partnership guaranteed to… Shares Journalists

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