18 books like The Hundred Secret Senses

What to read after The Hundred Secret Senses — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Bittersweet Colleen McCullough · 2013 · ★ 3.4 · 541p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not… Shares: Hermanas, Sisters, Novela

The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s,… Shares: Chinese Americans, China, Domestic fiction

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 662p · ≈ 22h · Moderate More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal... Shares: Hermanas, Sisters

Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A los cuarenta años, Madame Wu, esposa de un miembro de una de las dinastías de terratenientes más consideradas de China, abandona voluntariamente la vida matrimonial y busca una concubina para su marido. Su decisión cambia la vida de todos los que la rodean... A las puertas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la familia se enfrenta a la encrucijada entre tradición, comunismo y pensamiento occidental,… Shares: China, Domestic fiction

Hold Tight Harlan Coben · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate “A page-turner. Don’t start reading it if you’ve got important business the next morning becauseHold Tight will keep you up all night.” — San Francisco Chronicle “A fast and exhilarating roller-coaster ride that you don’t want to end, but hold on tight. Then take the time to hug your kids.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) “COMPULSIVE PAGE-TURNER… “How do you weigh a child’s privacy against a… Shares: Littérature américaine, Novela

Dragon Seed (Progress English) Pearl S. Buck · 1941 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Dragon Seed is a fictional novel which describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Shares: China, Domestic fiction

Daddy Danielle Steel · 1989 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate El mundo alrededor de Oliver Watson parece disolverse cuando Sarah, su esposa durante dieciocho an os, regresa a Harvard para graduarse. Oliver es abandonado a su suerte, con tres hijos y una libertad que jama s deseo. Cuando la madre de Oliver muere, su padre tambie n ha cambiado: ma s osado que su hijo y con menos tiempo por vivir, George Watson pronto reencontrara el amor y un nuevo… Shares: Novela, Domestic fiction

Second generation Howard Fast · 1978 · ★ 4.4 · 441p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Born to enormous wealth and social standing, Barbara Lavette leaves her sumptuous home on San Francisco's Nob Hill to lead a life of adventure that takes her from the depression to the darkest days of World War II.Troubled by the conflicts of her dual inheritance and scornful of her mother's social world, Barbara sets out to build her own life in her own way, leading her to a Europe on the brink… Shares: San Francisco, Domestic fiction

Weep No More, My Lady Mary Higgins Clark · 1987 · ★ 3.9 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing multimillionaire Ted Winters stands accused of her murder, but Elizabeth has doubts. Along the windswept… Shares: Sisters, Novela

Safe harbour Danielle Steel · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate An unforgettable story of survival...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring – and keep – families together...On a wind-swept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her… Shares: San Francisco, Domestic fiction

The secret life of bees Sue Monk Kidd · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest… Shares: Sisters, Domestic fiction

Fall On Your Knees:A Novel Ann-Marie MacDonald · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped… Shares: Sisters, Domestic fiction

The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox Maggie O'Farrell · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In Edinburgh in the 1930s, the Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme… Shares: Sisters, Domestic fiction

A Student of Weather Elizabeth Hay · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A Student of Weather is the brilliant first novel by acclaimed storywriter, Elizabeth Hay. It tells the story of the rivalry between two contrasting sisters and of a stranger who changes both of their lives forever. Spanning thirty years, it opens in the Prairie Dust Bowl of the 1930s and, later, in the decades following the war, moves back and forth between Ottawa and New York City. Maurice… Shares: Sisters, Domestic fiction

The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on,… Shares: Novela, Domestic fiction

Atonement Ian McEwan · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 435p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted… Shares: Sisters, Domestic fiction

Sea Swept Nora Roberts · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Sea Swept is the first book of four in the Chesapeake Bay novel series. Originally published in 1998. ---------- Also contained in: The Quinn Brothers Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor Shares: Novela, Domestic fiction

The Girls Lori Lansens · 2005 · ★ 3.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 'I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I've never used an aeroplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that...So many things I've never done, but oh, how I've been loved. And, if such things were to be, I'd live a thousand times as me, to be loved so exponentially' The girls,… Shares: Sisters, Domestic fiction

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