16 books like White horses

What to read after White horses — 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 the theme… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

Aftertime Sophie Littlefield · 2011 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilization. Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters--people turned hungry for human flesh by… Shares: Mothers and daughters, California

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

One true thing Anna Quindlen · 1994 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons. Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s,… Shares: Mothers and daughters, California, Domestic fiction

Naissances Danielle Steel · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A powerful novel of three couples who face decisions about having children, which will test them as lovers, partners and friends.Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas are a California couple who seem to have it all, and after their wedding, Diana teases that she will make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterwards, she is still not pregnant. As they wait out each month with anticipation, only to be… Shares: California, Domestic fiction

The first time Joy Fielding · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Moderate After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart discovers that her husband, Jake—a high-profile Chicago attorney—is involved in yet another love affair. But a far greater crisis descends upon the Hart family after Jake leaves home; Mattie receives devastating news that will alter their lives. Wracked by guilt, Jake returns to the wife he has never really loved and the teenage daughter who wants… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

Perfect Nightmare John Saul · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-stopping tale of lurking terror and twisted intent.Every parent's nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

Winter Garden Kristin Hannah · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past. Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

Second generation Howard Fast · 1978 · ★ 4.4 · 441p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Born to enormous wealth and social standing, Barbara Lavette leaves her sumptuous home on San Francisco's Nob Hill to lead a life of adventure that takes her from the depression to the darkest days of World War II.Troubled by the conflicts of her dual inheritance and scornful of her mother's social world, Barbara sets out to build her own life in her own way, leading her to a Europe on the brink… Shares: California, Domestic fiction

Unless Carol Shields · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on,… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

All That Glitters V. C. Andrews · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Driven from the Dumas mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew.... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house,… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

The probable future Alice Hoffman · 2003 · ★ 3.9 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Alice Hoffman's most magical novel to date--three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love. Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future--a future that she might not want to… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

Summer Island Kristin Hannah · 2001 · ★ 4.5 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. Now she is a famous talk show host. Her daughter Ruby is a struggling comedienne. The two haven’t spoken in more than a decade. Then a scandal from Nora’s past is exposed, and Ruby is offered a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Reluctantly, she returns to the family house on Summer Island, a home filled… Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

Petals on the Wind V.C. Andrews · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Petals on the Wind is a novel written by V. C. Andrews in 1980. It is the second book in the Dollanganger series. The timeline takes place from the siblings' successful escape in November 1960 to the fall of 1975. ---------- Also contained in: Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind Shares: Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction

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