18 books like The judgment of Paris

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Back Passage James Lear · 2006 · ★ 3.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it's with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch's observant eye pegs… Shares: Upper class, Gay men, Americans

Five Days in Paris Danielle Steel · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Peter Haskell has everything.. power, position, a career and a family that mean everything to him and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher, the wife of a famous senator, is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she once loved and no longer even knows. Peter and Olivia meet in Paris,… Shares: Americans in fiction, Paris, Americans

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 614p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal… Shares: Upper class, Paris, Americans

Daisy Miller Henry James · 1877 · ★ 3.4 · 62p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy because Daisy is too vivacious and flirtatious and neither belongs to, nor follows the rules of, their society. The novella is a comment on American and European attitudes towards… Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

The Black Madonna T. Davis Bunn · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Als haar kunsthandel bijna failliet is, krijgt een Amerikaanse antiekspecialiste spectaculaire opdrachten van een anonieme opdrachtgever. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

The Book of Salt Monique T. D. Truong · 2003 · ★ 3.0 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In deciding if he should accompany his employers to America, stay in France, or go back to his native Vietnam, Binh recalls his life in Vietnam, the jobs he's held since leaving there, and the people it has helped him meet. Shares: Paris, Gay men, Americans

The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 743p · ≈ 24h · Moderate In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and… Shares: Paris, Gay men

Giovanni's Room James Baldwin · 1956 · ★ 4.3 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

No middle name Lee Child · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A collection of pulse-pounding Jack Reacher stories--one never-before-seen novella, plus eleven others collected for the first time in print--each with original introductions from the twelve-time #1 New York Times bestselling author"-- Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

The Ambassadors Henry James · 1903 · ★ 3.6 · 562p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely. Chad's mother lives in Woollett, Mass., and wants her son to return to run the family business.… Shares: Paris, Americans

Without Fail Lee Child · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They’ve planned well. There’s just one thing they didn’t plan on: Reacher. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

Killing Floor Lee Child · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

Echo Burning Lee Child · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking… Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

The Wings of the Dove Henry James · 1902 · ★ 3.8 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to secure her future, perhaps her cunning will. So when Milly Theale arrives in Europe from America, laden with wealth but also… Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

The Interior Lisa See · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "The Interior brings back the duo of Chinese police detective Liu Hulan and her lover, American attorney David Stark. This time, for Hulan, the case is alarmingly personal, unearthing her own buried past and a stunning network of violence and conspiracy."--BOOK JACKET. "When an old friend from a village deep within China's interior asks Hulan to find out the truth about her daughter's suspicious… Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain · 1878 · ★ 3.9 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Twain's account of traveling in Europe. A Tramp Abroad sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. A Tramp Abroad includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

Tales of Henry James · 1893 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The last of the Valerii.--The real thing.--The lesson of the master.--Daisy Miller. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

The American Henry James · 1877 · ★ 3.7 · 473p · ≈ 15h · Challenging A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others. Shares: Americans in fiction, Americans

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