18 books like Walter Sherwood's Probation

What to read after Walter Sherwood's Probation — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Girl with All the Gifts Mike Carey · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about… Shares: Self-reliance, Coming-of-age

The little giant of Aberdeen County Tiffany Baker · 2009 · ★ 3.7 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

Oliver Twist George Almar · 1838 · ★ 3.9 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens’ Oliver Twist has captured readers’ hearts for more than 150 years. Today’s children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

David Copperfield [adaptation] Malvina G. Vogel · 1979 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood. Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age, History

How to be rich J. Paul Getty · 1965 · ★ 4.0 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate J. Paul Getty draws on his own experiences of becoming the worlds first generally recognized billionaire to explain money and economics. He does so in a way that is very readable even to the novice. He is surprisingly down to earth and rather philosophical in his discussion of what wealth is, what it means to have wealth and as the title itself states "How to be rich". J. Paul explains in… Shares: Wealth, History

Armourer's House Rosemary Sutcliff · 1951 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: Orphans, History

Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

Alice of old Vincennes Maurice Thompson · 1900 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A historical novel dealing with the life of the old Northwest in Revolutionary times. James Maurice Thompson (1844-1901), son of a Baptist minister, was born in Fairfield, Indiana. The family moved to north Georgia in the 1850s and he was educated by tutors in the classical languages, literature, French and mathematics, which provided the basis for his later work as a civil engineer. During the… Shares: Orphans, History

Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · ★ 3.9 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Challenging .I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache d'un geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dineurs attardes un regard rapide et circulaire, un de ces regards de joli garcon qui s'etendent comme des coups d'epervier. Les… Shares: Wealth, History

Across the Nightingale Floor Lian Hearn · 2002 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Already a sensation around the world, this first book of the Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale of war, passion, and intrigue, evoking the spirit of medieval Japan. It is the story of a boy who is suddenly plucked from his life in a remote and peaceful village to find himself a pawn in a political scheme filled with treacherous warlords, rivalry and the intensity of… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith · 1776 · ★ 3.9 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth, and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics. This reprint of… Shares: Wealth, History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares: History

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares: History

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: History

American Icon Bryce G. Hoffman · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Moderate At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, the man who had saved Boeing, Ford had put together a bold plan to unify… Shares: History

Tower of Basel Adam LeBor · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An investigative history of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers' own bank. Shares: History

Juan de la Rosa Nataniel Aguirre · 1943 · ★ 3.5 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, this novel is narrated by one of the last surviving… Shares: Coming-of-age, History

Of Human Bondage William Somerset Maugham · 1915 · ★ 4.2 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Challenging Of Human Bondage is a moving exploration of loneliness, obsessive love, and a young man's search for meaning and direction in life. Written in the third person, it tells the story of Philip Carey, a self-conscious orphan with a club-foot who learns medicine. Not only is this a significant work in the Bildungsroman tradition, but its largely autobiographical basis gives it a special interest in… Shares: Orphans, Coming-of-age

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