18 books like The Things They Carried

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The Nightwalkers Thomas Tessier · 1980 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Bobby can feel changes gradually taking over his body. Can he be responsible for the reign of terror that's sweeping London? Can he be...a werewolf? Shares Vietnam War, Veterans
Proposal
Proposal Meg Cabot · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Light The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva!The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery. But that’s what happens when you’re a mediator—cursed with the “gift” of communicating with the dead.That’s… Shares Romans
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A Twist in the Tale Jeffrey Archer · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories, A Twist in the Tale, will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget. No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer… Shares Short Stories
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The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles. Shares Vietnam War, Soldiers
Death Comes to the Village
Death Comes to the Village Catherine Lloyd · 2013 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figure from his bedroom window struggling with a heavy load, the tranquil facade of the village begins to loom sinister. Unable to forget the incident, Robert confides… Shares Soldiers
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Patrol Walter Dean Myers · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Light A frightened American soldier faces combat in the lush forests of Vietnam. Shares Vietnam War, Soldiers
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The two destinies Wilkie Collins · 1876 · ★ 3.7 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Challenging One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the… Shares Married people
The Women
The Women Kristin Hannah · 2024 · ★ 4.6 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her… Shares Vietnam War, Veterans
The Black Echo
The Black Echo Michael Connelly · 1992 · ★ 4.2 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Moderate An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in this "thrilling" novel filled with mystery and adventure (New York Times Book Review).For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal . . . because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam… Shares Vietnam War, Veterans
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The little bookroom Eleanor Farjeon · 1955 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer. Shares Short Stories
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Barrack-room ballads and Departmental ditties Rudyard Kipling · 1900 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Soldiers with this book.
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Plain tales from the hills Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of… Shares Soldiers, Romans, Short Stories
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The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy… Shares Male friendship, Married people, Romans
Cover of Amigo Para Dragon/Friend for a Dragon
Amigo Para Dragon/Friend for a Dragon Dav Pilkey · 1991 · ★ 4.5 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Dragon becomes such close friends with an apple that he deeply mourns its loss and is overjoyed when more grow to take its place. Shares Loneliness
Cover of In black and white
In black and white Rudyard Kipling · 1880 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Tales of native life in India, in Oriental style. Shares Short Stories
Cover of I Sing the Body Electric!
I Sing the Body Electric! Ray Bradbury · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Eighteen stories with bizarre and whimsical themes which transcend time and space. Shares Short Stories
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Under the Dome Stephen King · 2009 · ★ 3.9 · 991p · ≈ 33h · Moderate Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by the American author, Stephen King. Under the Dome is the 58th book published by Stephen King, and it is his 48th novel. The novel focuses on a small Maine town, and tells an intricate, multi-character, alternating perspective story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an… Shares Politicians, Veterans
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Island nights' entertainments Robert Louis Stevenson · 1893 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Romans, Short Stories with this book.

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