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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWinter of the World
Ken Follett · 928 pages
Continuing the story of five interrelated families as they become entangled in events from the beginning of the twentieth century, from the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. "En esta magnífica novela épica, Ken Follett conduce al lector a través de una Europa en ruinas, quebr
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy · 416 pages
Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon · 471 pages
WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birt
No Angel
Penny Vincenzi · 626 pages
Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during World War I that have a particular impact on her family, a destitute woman, and others. (from Amazon)
Hold the Dream
Barbara Taylor Bradford · 678 pages
**In A Woman's of Substance, Barbara Taylor Bradford captivated millions of readers with the enthralling and triumphant tale of Emma Harte and her remarkable rise to the top of her own international business cartel. Now in this exciting and mesmerizing sequel, Emma's story -- and her legacy -- continue.** Having achieved the pinnacle of success, the **elderly Emma relinquishes control of her v
Tai-Pan
James Clavell · 601 pages
"It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler-- Tai-Pan!"--P. [4] of cover.
The Fiery Cross
Diana Gabaldon · 985 pages
New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling tales featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling that is her most astonishing
All Change
Elizabeth Jane Howard · 572 pages
It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her the last remnants of a world of great houses and servants, of class and tradition in which the Cazalets have thrived. Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair; while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in the
The Singing Sword
Jack Whyte · 547 pages
A fictional portrait of King Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varius, and his wife, Luceiia, follows their desperate struggle to protect their land from the barbarian hordes threatening to overrun the last remnants of Roman civilization in Britain.
The Triumph of the Sun
Wilbur Smith · 656 pages
A Future Arrived
Phillip Rock · 288 pages
The final installment of the saga of the Grevilles of Abingdon Pryory begins in the early 1930s, as the Jazz Age comes to a shattering end. What follows is a decade of change and uncertainty, as the younger generation comes of age.
The Godfather
Mario Puzo · 447 pages
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is
Scarlett
Alexandra Ripley · 832 pages
Songs of Love and War
Santa Montefiore · 464 pages
Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything ... West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant English cousin. Together they grow up in the d
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 716 pages
War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel begins in the year 1805 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I and leads up to the 1812 French invasion of Russia by Napoleon. The era of Catherine the Great (1762–1796), when t
Homeland
John Jakes · 1,138 pages
Penmarric
Susan Howatch · 711 pages
Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. At the center of the novel is the great mansion called Penmarric. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange, and sensitive man, brings his bride Janna--the first act in a tempestuous drama that was to span three generations...
Solomon's Song
Bryce Courtenay · 679 pages
In Solomon's Song master storyteller Bryce Courtenay concludes the epic story of the Solomon family begun in The Potato Factory and continued in Tpmmo & Hawk.
The Son
Philipp Meyer · 561 pages
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave
Alex Cross's Trial
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo · 408 pages
Separated by timeFrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written--a novel called Trial.Connected by bloodAs a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppre
The Storms of War
Kate Williams · 514 pages
In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter Emmeline, while their eldest son, Arthur, is studying in Paris and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood, and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and
Captains and the Kings
Taylor Caldwell · 640 pages