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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorThe Song of the Lark
Willa Cather · 393 pages
Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art.
The Courtesan of Lucknow
Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
Stabat Mater
Tiziano Scarpa · 170 pages
Cecilia is a violinist who, during anguished sleepless nights, writes letters to the mother she never knew, haunted by her and hating her by turns. But things start to change when a new violin teacher arrives at the institute. The music of Vivaldi electrifies her and changes her attitude to life.
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland · 548 pages
Supposedly based on Beethoven, Jean-Christophe Krafft's life, personality, and artistic development are the themes of this series of volumes, along with the difficulties of the artist in society.
Music & Silence
Rose Tremain · 488 pages
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers · 334 pages
Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavior
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 274 pages
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson · 111 pages
Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
The Shadow Land
Elizabeth Kostova · 496 pages
"From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European ci
Daisy Jones & the Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 400 pages
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up. Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset St
The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope · 651 pages
*The Palliser Novels*, book 3: *The Eustace Diamonds*
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James · 510 pages
Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to secure her future, perhaps her cunning will. So when Milly Theale arrives in Europe from America, laden with wealth but also grave
Cry to Heaven
Anne Rice · 544 pages
In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voi
The Fountain Overflows
Rebecca West · 432 pages
Netochka Nezvanova
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 172 pages
Netochka Nezvanova (Russian: Неточка Незванова) is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first but unfinished attempt at writing a novel. It translates to "nameless nobody.". The first completed section of the book was published in the end of 1849. The story is about the sorrowful life of a young girl living in extreme poverty in Saint Petersburg, who ends up an orphan and is adopted by a wealthy upper-class fa
Under The Visible Life
Kim Echlin · 348 pages
Fatherless Katherine carries the stigma of her mixed-race background through an era that is hostile to her and all she represents. It is only through music that she finds the freedom to temporarily escape and dream of a better life for herself, nurturing this hard-won refuge throughout the vagaries of unexpected motherhood and an absent husband, and relying on her talent to build a future for her
Just Above My Head
James Baldwin · 559 pages
This sprawling drama traces the passage of three individuals through the events of the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies from the Apollo in Harlem to the Olympia in Paris. Love and courage bind a former child evangelist, a famous gospel singer, and the latter's manager-brother.
Corregidora
Gayl Jones · 185 pages
A terse, chilling novel about how the memory of slavery plagues black women and men long after emancipation. Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the 19th-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother. Charged with “making generations” to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien · 480 pages
"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old."Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Squar
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens · 555 pages
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters—the eloquent ne'er-do-well
Felix Holt: The Radical
George Eliot · 440 pages
Two men vying for the hand of Esther, a young woman of charm and virtue, are Felix Holt, an idealistic young artisan, and Harold Transome, the intelligent heir to an estate. She is drawn to Holt yet has dreams of marrying into a life of refinement.
The Cross
Sigrid Undset · 394 pages
The third and final book about Kristin Lavransdatter, finds her increasingly estranged from her husband, and worried about the future of their sons; it chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear, and how she finds the strength to endure them.