18 books like The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Sue Townsend · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault.'Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. Shares Adolescence, Teenage boys, Diaries, Manners and customs

Candida George Bernard Shaw · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social… Shares British and irish drama, Drama, Social life and customs

Roaring Girl Thomas Middleton · 1998 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares British and irish drama, Manners and customs, Drama, Social life and customs with this book.

Youth in Revolt C. D. Payne · 1993 · 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, Youth, Teenage boys

Diary of a provincial lady E. M. Delafield · 1930 · ★ 3.9 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate 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, Social life and customs

Brighton Beach memoirs Neil Simon · 1743 · ★ 3.9 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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, Drama, Social life and customs

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie. Shares Adolescence, Diaries, Humorous stories, Young Adult

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.5 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "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

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Manners and customs, Drama, Social life and customs with this book.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

The Tricksters Margaret Mahy · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again. Shares Family Problems, Youth, Young Adult

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

The Memoirs of Cleopatra Margaret George · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 976p · ≈ 32h · Challenging The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words - by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of *The Autobiography of Henry VIII* and *Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles*. Told in the first person - from the young queen's earliest memories of her father's tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world - this is an enthralling saga of ambition… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte · 1902 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs with this book.

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated,… Shares British and irish drama, Drama

Coming of age in Samoa Margaret Mead · 1924 · ★ 3.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 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

Adrian Mole Sue Townsend · 1999 · ★ 4.8 · 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… Shares Manners and customs, Humorous stories, Young Adult, Social life and customs

David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody… Shares British and irish drama, Drama, Social life and customs

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