18 books like The green years

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

Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth · 1969 · ★ 3.7 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century. Shares: Coming of age in fiction, Young men in fiction, Young men, Coming-of-age

Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence · 1913 · ★ 3.6 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrence’s third novel. It went through various drafts, and was titled “Paul Morel” until the final draft, before being published and met with an indifferent reaction from contemporary critics. Modern critics now consider it to be D. H. Lawrence’s masterpiece, with the Modern Library placing it ninth in its “100 Best English-Language… Shares: Young men in fiction, England in fiction, Young men

Andy Grant's pluck Horatio Alger, Jr. · 1900 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is the story of a hardworking young man determined to make the best of his opportunities. Andy is forced to drop out of Penhurst Academy to help his father on the farm. Accepting this, Andy returns home then decides to form his fate. With the help of a wealthy benefactor, he moves from his small town and is lead through work traveling across the country. This book is part of a series of rags… Shares: Coming of age in fiction, Coming-of-age

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: Young men, Coming-of-age

The Hand Of Justice Susanna Gregory · 2019 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers.------------------------------------The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The… Shares: Physicians, History

金閣寺 三島由紀夫 · 1956 · ★ 4.5 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual physical Golden Pavilion. He comes under the influence of Kashiwagi, a fellow student with a very bitter view of life. Shares: Young men in fiction, Young men

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, Coming-of-age

La chartreuse de Parme Stendhal · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 478p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory. Finally heeding advice, Fabrizio sneaks back to Milan, only to become embroiled in a series of amorous exploits, fuelled by his… Shares: Young men in fiction, Young men, History

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Shares: Irish, Boys, History

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Shares: Irish, Boys, History

Bicycle days John Burnham Schwartz · 1989 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When Alec Stern arrives in Japan, he discovers a land of opportunity. For only in Tokyo could an impressionable young man fresh out of college find, in one stroke, a new job, a new family, and a society that lavishes attention on Japanese-speaking gaijin. Yet, even as Alec claims a place in this new world, he is haunted by memories of the one he left behind—a world once infinitely secure but… Shares: Young men, Boys

The turmoil, a novel Booth Tarkington · 1914 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 booksellers rated him in a poll as the most significant contemporary American author. -Wikipedia entry for Tarkington Shares: Young men in fiction, Young men

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1779 · ★ 3.7 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Edición de Manuel José González. Shares: Young men in fiction, Young men

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, History

Maurice E.M. Forster · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond. It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960. Shares: England in fiction, Coming-of-age

David Copperfield [adaptation] Malvina G. Vogel · 1979 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood. Shares: Young men, Coming-of-age, History

The Cider House Rules John Irving · 1985 · ★ 4.3 · 568p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted. Shares: Physicians, Young men

L’étranger Albert Camus · 1942 · ★ 4.0 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l’absurde. Le roman a été traduit en soixante-huit langues. Shares: Medicine in Literature, History

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