18 books like Watermelon

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The demi-gods James Stephens · 1914 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Patsy Mac Cann spends his days wandering rural Ireland with his daughter Mary Mac Cann and their donkey. They set up camp for the night and are surprised by the appearance of three demi-gods. The demi-gods, strangers to humanity and in need of guidance, decide to follow the Mac Canns. The group begins their adventure on the winding Irish roads, encountering locals—each with their own story to… Shares Ireland -- Fiction

Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney · 2017 · ★ 3.7 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home… Shares Dublin, Female friendship

Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in… Shares Single mothers, Female friendship

Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Moderate It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace… Shares Dublin, Female friendship

Sushi für Anfänger Marian Keyes · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London to a… Shares Dublin, Female friendship

Broken Harbor

Broken Harbor Tana French · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The mesmerizing fourth novel of the Dublin murder squad by New York Times bestselling author Tana French Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands. On one of the half-built, half-abandoned… Shares Dublin

The 9th judgment James Patterson · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. The most dangerousThe same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat… Shares Infants, Female friendship

Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical… Shares Single mothers, Mothers and daughters

A Greyhound of a Girl Roddy Doyle · 2011 · 169p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky twelve-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying. But Gran can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary's street with a message for her Gran, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure"-- Shares Dublin, Mothers and daughters

Drums Under the Windows Sean O'Casey · 1945 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Irish authors with this book.

Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner · 1926 · ★ 3.7 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Unfintunately, half of the book is missing Shares Single women

Stranger Thing

Stranger Thing Martin Leicht · 2013 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Infants with this book.

The Last Mrs. Parrish

The Last Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and… Shares Single women

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

The transfiguration of Miss Philura Florence Morse Kingsley · 1901 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Miss Philura is a plain woman who attends a lecture on 'metaphysical philosophy' where she is told that she can have anything she wants if she asks the "all-encircling Good" for it. She promptly asks 'Good' to make her pretty, give her beautiful clothes and provide a husband for her. In the end her requests are granted. Shares Single women

North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 2016 · 490p · ≈ 16h · Moderate By the mid-nineteenth century, the transition of textile production in England from a cottage craft to mechanized factories was complete. Still, the effects of the industrial revolution remain distant from the idyllic rural parish in the New Forest where Margaret Hale grows up. But with her father’s crisis of conscience in ministry, the country lanes of Hampshire give way to the crowded urban… Shares Mothers and daughters -- Fiction

Boone's Lick Larry McMurtry · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In the Missouri town of Boone's Lick, a colorful cast of characters stands on the edge of the Western frontier ready to push west to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Shares Runaway husbands

Dark Witch Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: County Mao, Ireland. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. There she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O'Dwyer, and they invite her into their lives. When Iona lands a job at the local… Shares Ireland -- Fiction

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