18 books like The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend · 1982 · ★ 3.9 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From book jacket: Adrian Mole is a worrier. The problems of existence hit him hard. Spots, bits of him that won't seem to keep still, the cracks in his parents' marriage, all prey heavily on his mind. There are some consolations. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift the gloomy introspection of Mole's moods. Mole believes he is an… Shares: Adolescence, Teenage boys, Diaries, Manners and customs

I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith · 1948 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model. Money is in short supply but Cassandra and her discontented older sister Rose are forced to make… Shares: Diary fiction, Diaries, England, Young Adult

Adrian Mole Sue Townsend · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate He's back. Aged 30¼. Twenty-first century Mole. Now in his thirties, Adrian's still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as a celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Brave New Britain? 'Thank goodness for his… Shares: Diary fiction, Manners and customs, Humorous stories, Young Adult

Diary of a provincial lady E. M. Delafield · 1930 · ★ 3.9 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The goal of the provincial lady is to maintain 'niceness', whether it be in the home, relationships or personal behaviour. 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' first published in the 1930s is a witty celebration of the suburban British housewife between the wars. Shares: Diaries, Manners and customs, Humorous stories, England

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, England

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Shares: Diary fiction, Diaries, Young Adult

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: Adolescence, Teenage boys

Tagebuch eines halbwüchsigen Mädchens Hermine Hug-Hellmuth · 1919 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Challenging 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: Adolescence, Diaries

Coming of age in Samoa Margaret Mead · 1924 · ★ 3.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The classic anthropological study describes what it was like in the 1920s for girls growing up in the culture of the Samoan Islands, offering provocative insights into such topics as childhood, gender roles, and culture. Shares: Adolescence, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. The novel details Charlie's unconventional style of thinking as he… Shares: Diary fiction, Adolescence, Young Adult

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs

All's Fair in Love and Law Alan Hammond · 2011 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors' firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as the local residents are at pains to point out). This heart-warming collection of stories revolves around the lives, relationships, triumphs and failures of the good people of Hockam and of the lawyers to whom they look for help. We meet the lonely dentist and his noisy… Shares: Manners and customs, England, Social life and customs

The FitzOsbornes in exile Michelle Cooper · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 460p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever. Shares: Diary fiction, Diaries, Young Adult

Brighton Beach memoirs Neil Simon · 1743 · ★ 3.9 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Demanding A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees. Shares: Teenage boys, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

This Is Not My Hat Jon Klassen · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it’s a good thing that enormous fish won’t wake up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened.... A picture-book morality play about rationalizing dishonesty. Shares: Juvenile Wit and humor, Humorous stories

Mr. Sponge's sporting tour Robert Smith Surtees · 1852 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Ill-mannered foxhunter Mr. Sponge is the anti-hero of this 1853 farce of Victorian England. This book also includes illustrations by John Leech. Shares: Manners and customs, England, Social life and customs

This can't be happening at Macdonald Hall! Gordon Korman · 1978 · ★ 4.0 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Bruno and Boots are always in trouble. So the Headmaster, aka "The Fish" decides it would be best to separate them. Bruno must now room with ghoulish Elmer Dimsdale, plus his plants, goldfish, and ants. And Boots is stuck with nerdy, preppy, paranoid George Wexford-Smyth III. Of course, this means war. Because Bruno and Boots are determined to get their old room back, no matter what it… Shares: Juvenile Wit and humor, Humorous stories

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