18 books like The Blind Assassin

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

The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 · ★ 4.3 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. Shares: Community pick

Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf. Shares: Novela hogareña, Novela psicológica, Widows, Psychological fiction

Cell Stephen King · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 477p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Science Fiction

The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Een vrouw van half-Chinese afkomst vindt haar wortels via haar Chinese halfzusje en een tocht naar China en het dorp van haar vader. Shares: Hermanas, Sisters

The silver kiss Annette Curtis Klause · 1990 · ★ 3.7 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. Shares: Muerte, Death, Ficción

Off Season Anne Rivers Siddons · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's… Shares: Widows, Psychological fiction, Death

A Widow for One Year John Irving · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate “One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but… Shares: Women novelists, Widows

Bittersweet Colleen McCullough · 2013 · ★ 3.4 · 541p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not… Shares: Hermanas, Sisters

The King of Lies John Hart · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed facade begin to crack. Shares: Muerte, Death

Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson · 1972 · ★ 4.1 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. Shares: Muerte, Death

The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic features French flaps and rough-cut pages.Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion, and its astoniishing… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Ficción

Sanctuary Edith Wharton · 1903 · ★ 4.0 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any children he may conceive from inheriting their father's moral weakness. The couple does have a child, Dick, and in a… Shares: Widows, Psychological fiction

Absolute Friends John le Carré · 2003 · ★ 3.7 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the shining-new Republic of Pakistan, is friends with Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass world of Cold War espionage and in today's world of terror. Originally published. Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

In the Night Room Peter Straub · 2004 · ★ 3.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the wake of a grotesque accident, a famous children’s book author realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question. Willy Patrick, the respected author of the award-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind–again. One day, she is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse. She knows somehow… Shares: Sisters, Psychological fiction, Death

Ghostgirl Tonya Hurley · 2008 · ★ 4.1 · 341p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Charlotte Usher se siente prácticamente invisible hasta que un día lo es de verdad. Peor aún: está muerta. Y todo por culpa de un osito de goma. Pero la muerte no impide que Charlotte siga con su plan. Todo lo contrario, se vuelve mucho más creativa y hará cualquier cosa por conseguir su objetivo: ser popular para seducir al chico que ama. Shares: Muerte, Death

Desperation Stephen King · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as Tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the town's residents. The forces of good orchestrate a… Shares: Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction

Jezebel's Daughter Wilkie Collins · 1880 · ★ 3.8 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging MR. DAVID GLENNEY CONSULTS HIS MEMORY AND OPENS THE STORY Shares: Widows, Death

Get Even Martina Cole · 2015 · ★ 3.0 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Sharon doesn't question Lenny's business dealings and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons. But one night Lenny doesn't come home. It isn't the first time he has gone AWOL. But it is his last. He is found murdered - beaten to death in an act of brutality… Shares: Widows, Death

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