11 books like The emperor of shoes

What to read after The emperor of shoes — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Dont Ever Look Back Daniel Friedman · 2014 DON'T EVER GET OLD was one of mystery-publishing's biggest critical successes last year, earning starred reviews from every major trade publication, garnering nominations for the Edgar, Thriller, and Anthony awards, and winning the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. The producer of four Harry Potter films and the Sherlock Holmes sequel, Lionel Wigram, is set to produce the film version. In… Shares: Jewish, Jews

Windy McPherson's son Sherwood Anderson · 1916 · ★ 3.5 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a Historical Fiction Book. The bookl tells that A young boy grows up in rural Iowa. "At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon the station platform of the little corn-shipping town of Caxton in Iowa. It was a… Shares: Fathers and sons, Coming-of-age

The true tale of the monster Billy Dean David Almond · 2011 · ★ 3.5 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Billy Dean is a secret child, growing up in the dark heart of Blinkbonny. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the smell of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings. When his father disappears, Billy's mum brings him… Shares: Fathers and sons, Coming-of-age

State Tectonics Malka Older · 2018 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking… Shares: Democracy, Corrupt practices

The Chosen Chaim Potok · 1966 · ★ 4.1 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance of a baseball game, and a terrible accident, that leads them to be lifelong friends Shares: Jews, Fathers and sons, Coming-of-age

Single & single John le Carré · 1999 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A crooked father and an honest son are the protagonists of this novel on money laundering. The father is Tiger Single, owner of a British investment house, laundering money for criminals. His dream is to see his son follow in his footsteps, but the son is honest and will not have anything to do with him--until the father's life is threatened. Shares: Family-owned business enterprises, Fathers and sons

Sons Pearl S. Buck · 1932 · ★ 3.9 · 467p · ≈ 15h · Challenging "Wang Lung lay dying." Thus the action of SONS begins immediately after that of the last chapter of THE GOOD EARTH. This new novel carries on the saga of the house of Wang, of Pear Blossom and the aging Lotus, of the three sons of Wang Lung, their wives and their children. The chief character is the youngest son, Wang The Tiger, leader of men, who through raids and sieges and pitched battles… Shares: China, Fathers and sons

Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (Library of Wales) Dannie Abse · 1969 · ★ 4.5 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backdrop of the times: unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War. Shares: Jews, Coming-of-age

The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets… Shares: Social problems, Coming-of-age

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. Shares: Loyalty, Coming-of-age

Wise men Stuart Nadler · 2013 · ★ 3.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah. Shares: Fathers and sons, Coming-of-age

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