18 books like The Memory Keeper's Daughter

What to read after The Memory Keeper's Daughter — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is a major… Shares: Women's Fiction, Literary Fiction, Twins

Fallen angels Patricia Hickman · 2003 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Jeb Nubey hides a secret about his past that has left him alienated from his family and hiding from the law. Shares: Abandoned children, Brothers and sisters

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: Abandoned children, Twins

Dreamcatcher Stephen King · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fiction horror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. Shares: Down Syndrome, Thriller

Une si longue lettre Mariama Bâ · 1980 · ★ 4.0 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Moderate This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. A beautiful glimpse inside a woman's heart. Shares: Women's Fiction, Women

Beneath a Rising Moon Keri Arthur · 2003 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate On the werewolf reservation of Ripple Creek, a killer is on the loose. Three women are dead and Neva Grant's twin sister is fighting for her life. Neva vows to hunt down the killer, if Savannah finds the strength to live. To begin the hunt, she must seduce a member of the suspected Sinclair clan. To her dismay, the only Sinclair not under suspicion is a wolf with a hard-drinking, hard-loving… Shares: Twins, Thriller

Hearts in Atlantis Stephen King · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening… Shares: Literary Fiction, Thriller

Fangirl Rainbow Rowell · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 438p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the… Shares: Twins, Fathers and daughters

Ghost Wall Sarah Moss · 2018 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside. In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in… Shares: Literary Fiction, Fathers and daughters

Hänsel und Gretel Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A retelling of the adventures of a brother and sister left in the woods by their wicked stepmother. Shares: Abandoned children, Brothers and sisters

The Onts Dan Greenburg · 2005 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin face giant ants, ghouls, zombies, and a treacherous orphanage matron when they leave their miserable home at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage to live with the Mandible sisters in the Dripping Fang Forest. Shares: Twins, Brothers and sisters

Unless Carol Shields · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and… Shares: Literary Fiction, Women

Play It as It Lays Joan Didion · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 213p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose. Shares: Literary Fiction, Women

Wild Swans Jung Chang · 1989 · ★ 4.3 · 729p · ≈ 24h · Moderate "Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover. Shares: Twins, Women

Master of the moor Ruth Rendell · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . . Shares: Women, Thriller

I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson · 2014 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three… Shares: Twins, Brothers and sisters

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held… Shares: Literary Fiction, Women

Fear The Worst Linwood Barclay · 2009 · ★ 3.9 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Your daughter doesn't come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No one's seen here. But it's worse than that. No one's ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now?In Linwood Barclay's riveting new thriller, an ordinary man's desperate search for his daughter leads him into a dark world of corruption, exploitation, and murder. Tim Blake… Shares: Fathers and daughters, Thriller

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