18 books like The Book of Form and Emptiness

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Imago bird Nicholas Mosley · 1980 · ★ 3.5 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "This novel examines the contradictions between the public face and the private experience. Nephew to the prime minister of England, Bert tries to make sense of the grown-up world around him, a colorful crowd of television personalities, politicians, young Trotskyites, pop stars, and eccentric relatives. With the help of his laconic psychoanalyst, Bert questions the relation between exterior and… Shares: Teenage boys, Bildungsromans

Vermilion Phyllis A. Whitney · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From the jacket From the very beginning, for Lindsay Phillips, there was the memory of that terrible cane with the dragon's head-threatening horror, torment, death. And always there was Vermilion whispering in Lindsay's ear: "Go! You must go to Arizona. Everything you want is waiting for you there." Lindsay hadn't listened to Vermilion for years, but now she couldn't shut out her… Shares: Fathers, Death

The emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 657p · ≈ 21h · Moderate n his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord--families who summer at Martha's Vineyard--and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. Talcott Garland is a successful law professor,… Shares: Fathers, Death

The Barrowfields Phillip Lewis · 2017 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father… Shares: Fathers, Death, Bildungsromans

The Deadman's Pedal Alan Warner · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It is the early 1970s and for 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there's really not much to do in the Highlands of Scotland. The only local drama and romance is the West Highland Line, so Simon joins up as a train driver. But that summer he is introduced to a world far more glamorous and strange than the railways can provide. Shares: Teenage boys, Bildungsromans

Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his… Shares: Teenage boys, Death, Coming-of-age

Upstate Kalisha Buckhanon · 2004 · ★ 4.1 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Harlem, 1985. Antonio has been seeing Natasha for a while now. Their relationship is full of the drama, the passion and the intensity of every first love affair. But their story is different. For Antonio is on trial for the murder of his father. This is Natasha and Antonio's story, one struggling to cope with life in jail, the other with life outside. Extraordinarily vivid and honest, their… Shares: Fathers, Death, Bildungsromans

Twilight at Mac's Place Ross Thomas · 1990 · ★ 4.2 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The son of a dead CIA agent is offered $100,000 for the rights to his father's memoirs sight unseen. Shares: Fathers, Death

Flirting with Pete Barbara Delinsky · 2003 · ★ 3.9 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's patients in her new home, she… Shares: Fathers, Death, Bildungsromans

Mapping the Interior Stephen Graham Jones · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of… Shares: Fathers, Death

Siradan insanlar Judith Guest · 1976 · ★ 3.0 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. This novel inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film of the same name starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in" Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 5 - 1976 [1]: https://www.judithguest.com/about Shares: Teenage boys, Death

Bendigo Shafter Louis L'Amour · 1979 · ★ 4.2 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ben Shafter helps his brother, his sister Lorna, and Ethan Sakett found a town in Wyoming while trying to learn more about Native Americans as well as whites. Shares: Teenage boys, Bildungsromans

Candy Terry Southern · 1964 · ★ 3.9 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy -- a satire of Voltaire's Candide -- chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world. Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age

Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet Joanne Proulx · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate “Stan,” I said, and I said it kind of loud so of course he had to look up. “Tomorrow morning: 8:37. The red van with the out-of-state plates? You go head to head. You lose. You die.” After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke holds everyone—the local media, his buddy… Shares: Teenage boys, Bildungsromans

Selection Day Aravind Adiga · 2001 · ★ 3.2 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize­-winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming-of-age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves. Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as… Shares: Teenage boys, Bildungsromans

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: Fathers, Death

True Grit Charles Portis · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest… Shares: Fathers, Death

Youth in Revolt C. D. Payne · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl-- now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael CeraSIX MONTHS IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS TEENAGERYouth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal… Shares: Teenage boys, Coming-of-age

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