18 books like The Cider House Rules

What to read after The Cider House Rules — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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 Young men

The Hand Of Justice

The Hand Of Justice Susanna Gregory · 2019 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares Physicians with this book.

The island of Heavenly Daze Lori Copeland · 2000 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine. It is decorated with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with gray cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard-working folks-most of whom are unaware that the island of Heavenly Daze is not just like the other islands of coastal Maine. The small town that crowns its peak… Shares Maine

Earwig and the witch Diana Wynne Jones · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Light Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage. Shares Orphanages

Shades of blue Karen Kingsbury · 2009 · ★ 4.3 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Abortion with this book.

Windy McPherson's son Sherwood Anderson · 1916 · ★ 3.5 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Young men with this book.

Guilty of Love Pat Simmons · 2007 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Abortion with this book.

Tilly Frank E. Peretti · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 126p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Tilly is a novel by Christian fiction author Frank E. Peretti. Originally written as a radio drama for Focus on the Family in 1986, Peretti published it was a book in 1988. Tilly was made into a short forty-minute film in 2002 by Love Life America. Its primary themes concern abortion and post-abortion guilt and depression. (Taken from Wikipedia) Shares Abortion

Choppy Water

Choppy Water Stuart Woods · 2020 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In this exhilarating new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington must go up against an enemy with deadly intentions--and ideologies.Stone Barrington and his friends are vacationing in Maine when their leisure is suddenly disrupted by extreme weather. To make matters worse, the inclement conditions allow for a menacing adversary to sneak in unnoticed and… Shares Maine

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Stephen King · 1982 · ★ 4.5 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King from his 1982 collection Different Seasons, subtitled Hope Springs Eternal. The novella has also been published as a standalone book. The story is entirely told by the character Red, in a narrative he claims to have been writing from September 1975 to January 1976, with an additional chapter added in spring… Shares Maine

The Screaming Bridge J. A. Darke · 2015 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Shares Orphanages with this book.

The Missing Sarah Langan · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 2007 Bram Stoker Award winner. A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . .The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small,… Shares Maine

The Overlook

The Overlook Michael Connelly · 2009 In his first case with the Homicide Special Squad, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must follow his instincts to stop a killer who could destroy the entire city -- even as the FBI works against him.Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head. It's the case LAPD detective Harry Bosch has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the Homicide Special… Shares Physicians

The last Puritan George Santayana · 1935 · 602p · ≈ 20h · Challenging "Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel and it became an instant best seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self-discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden. Oliver escapes puritanical self-destruction, the inability to celebrate… Shares Young men

The green years A. J. Cronin · 1944 · ★ 4.1 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is a precursor of Shannon's Way , detailing the struggles of the orphaned Robert Shannon to obtain education with the ultimate aim of becoming a medical researcher. A little long for a rather slight plot Shares Physicians, Young men

Cujo Stephen King · 1981 · ★ 4.4 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Cujo (/ˈkjuːdʒoʊ/) is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a rabid Saint Bernard. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983. Shares Maine

County Ansell, David MD · 2010 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. COUNTY covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the… Shares Physicians

Tagebuch eines halbwüchsigen Mädchens Hermine Hug-Hellmuth · 1919 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From the book:THE best preface to this journal written by a young girl belonging to the upper middle class is a letter by Sigmund Freud dated April 27, 1915, a letter wherein the distinguished Viennese psychologist testifies to the permanent value of the document: "This diary is a gem. Never before, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl,… Shares Adolescent

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