18 books like Unless

What to read after Unless — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Annie John Jamaica Kincaid · 1983 · ★ 3.7 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Since her first, prize-winning collection of stories, *At the Bottom of the River*, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. *The New York Times* hailed her "prophetic power" and the *Los Angeles Times Book Review* said: "No one else seems to be writing quite this way right now." With *Annie John*, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open… Shares Mothers and daughters, Teenage Girls, Domestic fiction, Literature

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 Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction, Women, Literature

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch · 1974 · ★ 3.9 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites; the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro. Shares Women authors, Domestic fiction

White horses Alice Hoffman · 1982 · ★ 4.0 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the adult Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come true... Shares Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

The Help Kathryn Stockett · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has… Shares Friends, Literary Fiction, Domestic fiction, Literature

Dawnshard

Dawnshard Brandon Sanderson · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares American literature with this book.

Crosshairs

Crosshairs James Patterson & James O. Born · 2024 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Enter into a deadly race against time with this psychological thriller as New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere. A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.  Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But… Shares American literature

25 Alive

25 Alive James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 2025 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!  Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas investigate the shocking murder of a former SFPD chief in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.     “Those who haven’t read any of the novels in… Shares American literature

Nash Falls

Nash Falls David Baldacci · 2025 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried… Shares American literature

Fallen

Fallen Linda Castillo · 2021 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares American literature with this book.

The Wife Stalker

The Wife Stalker Liv Constantine · 2020 · ★ 3.7 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Breezing into the tony seaside paradise of Westport, Connecticut, gorgeous thirtysomething Piper Reynard sets down roots, opening a rehab and wellness space and joining a local yacht club. When she meets Leo Drakos, a handsome, successful lawyer, the wedding ring on his finger is the only thing she doesn't like about him. Yet as Piper well knows, no marriage is permanent. Meanwhile, Joanna has… Shares American literature

Final Option

Final Option Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected finish created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series.When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to… Shares American literature

Mermaid Confidential

Mermaid Confidential Tim Dorsey · 2022 · ★ 4.3 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares American literature with this book.

The Lost Metal

The Lost Metal Brandon Sanderson · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 517p · ≈ 17h · Moderate For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set―with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders―since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict… Shares American literature

Yes, Daddy

Yes, Daddy Jonathan Parks-Ramage · 2021 · ★ 3.7 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "A gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special." —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead ThingsA propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where… Shares American literature

The Whispers of War

The Whispers of War Julia Kelly · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate For fans of historical novels by Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly comes a “gripping tale by a writer at the top of her game” (Fiona Davis, author of The Chelsea Girls) following three friends who struggle to remain loyal as one of them is threatened with internment by the British government at the start of World War II. In August of 1939, as Britain watches the headlines in fear of another… Shares American literature

Shorefall

Shorefall Robert Jackson Bennett · 2020 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy.“An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review A few years ago, Sancia Grado would’ve happily watched Tevanne burn. Now, she’s… Shares American literature

Before She Disappeared

Before She Disappeared Lisa Gardner · 2021 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgottenFrankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else… Shares American literature

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