18 books like The Love of a Good Woman

What to read after The Love of a Good Woman — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Nine Stories J. D. Salinger · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Psychology, Social life and customs

Act of will Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Audra is an impoverished children's nanny from Leeds who sacrificed everything for her only daughter. Christina is a talented art student who won world renown as a fashion designer – yet who has known pain and heartache. Kyle is a rebellious young woman who chafes against her mother's success – and in whom her grandmother's spirit of duty and sacrifice is reborn. Moving from the bleak Yorkshire… Shares: Mujeres, Ficción, Women

Bordados / Embroideries Marjane Satrapi · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A collection of stories and anecdotes, told in the form of a graphic novel, reveals the love and sex lives of a group of women as revealed during an afternoon of conversation and tea-drinking. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Mujeres, Women, Social life and customs

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a… Shares: Canada, Women, Psychology, Social life and customs

Escenas matritenses Ramón de Mesonero Romanos · 1862 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Challenging El interés de Mesonero Romanos por su ciudad natal dio como fruto algunas de sus obras más importantes, como esta, en la que reflejó la moralidad matritense. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

Une page d'amour Émile Zola · 1878 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Je me decide a joindre a ce volume l'arbre genealogique des Rougon-Macquart. Deux raisons me determinent. La premiere est que beaucoup de personnes m'ont demande cet arbre. Il doit, en effet, aider les lecteurs a se retrouver, parmi les membres assez nombreux de la famille dont je me suis fait l'historien. La seconde raison est plus compliquee. Je regrette de n'avoir pas publie l'arbre dans le… Shares: Women, Psychology, Social life and customs

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a… Shares: Mujeres, Ficción, Women, Social life and customs

Dolores Claiborne Stephen King · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.… Shares: Mujeres, Ficción, Women

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the… Shares: Mujeres, Ficción, Women

A Bird in the House Margaret Laurence · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Bird in the House is a series of eight interconnected short stories narrated by Vanessa MacLeod as she matures from a child at age ten into a young woman at age twenty. Wise for her years, Vanessa reveals much about the adult world in which she lives. Shares: Canada, Women, Social life and customs, Short Stories

More Tales of the City Armistead Maupin · 1980 · ★ 4.4 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Interlinking tales based around the lives of a San Francisco household. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Social life and customs

Los funerales de la Mamá Grande Gabriel García Márquez · 1962 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Huit contes écrits en 1962. "L'enfance de l'art", comme le note A. Rinaldi. Ou plus explicitement des esquisses pour ce qui deviendra ##Cent ans de solitude##. Des textes tropicaux, baroques, avec des reflets fantastiques. Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs, Short Stories

Fall of Giants Ken Follett · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 998p · ≈ 33h · Moderate It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Social life and customs

The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson · 1913 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Reflects the plight of Indian women caught between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation in Canada. Shares: Canada, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The Measure of a Heart (Women of the West #6) Janette Oke · 1992 · ★ 4.1 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Anna Trent felt fortunate to finish the eighth grade with first-class honors. Already past her sixteenth birthday, most of the girls her age had been forced long ago to drop out to help at home. She loved school loved to learn, loved the excitement of new discoveries, loved the quickening of her pulse as she shared some great adventure in the pages of a book. And now that is over. The oldest… Shares: Canada, Women

Storia della bambina perduta Elena Ferrante · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 614p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ostatni tom bestsellerowej serii, którą otwiera Genialna przyjaciółka. W skład tetralogii wchodzą również Historia nowego nazwiska oraz Historia ucieczki. Wszystkie powieści odniosły międzynarodowy sukces i zostały docenione także w środowisku pisarskim. Elenę i Lilę łączy niełatwa więź oparta na miłości, nienawiści, zazdrości, dominacji i podległości. Wspólnie wychowywały się na przedmieściach… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Ficción, Social life and customs

Öteki renkler Orhan Pamuk · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit… Shares: Vida social y costumbres, Social life and customs

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan · 1903 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A collection of stories by Sara Jeannette Duncan. In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. Shares: Canada, Women, Social life and customs

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