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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDeath of a Bookseller
Alice Slater · 481 pages
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2024 *** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS *** WOULD YOU KILL FOR A GOOD STORY? 'A confident, sassy, pitch-black debut' CAROLINE KEPNES 'Your new obsession' ERIN KELLY 'Savage, witty and all-consuming' ABIGAIL DEAN 'A dark masterpiece. It will work its way under your skin like
All Woman and Springtime
Brandon W. Jones
Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gyong-ho was a hollow husk of a girl, raised in one of North Korea's forced-labor camps. A mathematical genius, she has learned to cope with the past and present by escaping into a realm of numbers and calculations. Gyong-ho becomes enamored of the brash and radiant Il-sun. But Il-sun's pursuit of a better life imperils both girls when her suitor spirits them
Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine · 212 pages
The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante · 480 pages
In 2012, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker’s James Wood described as “large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,” F
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 454 pages
The story of three women and their struggle to make it in the entertainment industry. Upon making it to the top, the sad realization sets in that they have no place to go but down.
A Ticket to Ride: A Novel
Paula McLain · 254 pages
Remember that girl? The one who was impossibly cool, who taught you how to blow smoke rings, cut school, sneak out of the house? Remember how you turned yourself inside out trying to be just like her—and then she broke your heart?Set in the long, hot summer of 1973, Paula McLain's lyrical debut novel explores what happens when an insecure, motherless teenager falls under the dangerous spell of "th
Beyond the Pale Motel
Francesca Lia Block
"Maternal, sexy Catt and her beautiful, daring best friend Bree are hairdressers at an L.A. salon called Head Hunter, and work out at a gym called Body Farm. They have over a decade of sobriety behind them and are getting close to living the lives they've always wanted. But when Catt's husband, Dash, leaves her, and then her neighbor is brutally murdered, possibly by a man being called the Hollywo
On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe · 298 pages
At the house on Zwarterzustertraat four very different women have made their way from Africa to claim for themselves the riches of Europe.
God Still Don't Like Ugly
Mary Monroe · 419 pages
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's heart-stopping tale about a woman who's suffered too much to give up on herself, even if everyone else has. . . Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life. Now, after decad
After Dark
Haruki Murakami · 208 pages
A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon.Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the pyrotechnical genius that made Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle intern
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver · 240 pages
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
Workhorse
Caroline Palmer · 650 pages
"Fierce, funny and unflinching."—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters A richly drawn, unsettling, and wickedly funny story of envy and ambition set against the glamor and privilege of media and high society in New York City at its height. At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world
Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood · 445 pages
**Cat's Eye** is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter,
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Joyce Carol Oates · 324 pages
The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power and vengeance on a world they never made--a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.
The Last Girls
Lee Smith · 406 pages
"Revered for her powerful female characters, Lee Smith tells a perceptive story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as women. Harriet Holding is a hesitant teacher who has never married (she can't explain why, even to herself). Courtney Gray struggles to escape her Southern Living lifestyle. Catherine Wilson, a sculptor, is suffocating
Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino · 327 pages
When We Were Silent
Fiona McPhillips · 320 pages
Broken Glass Park
Alina Bronsky · 221 pages
Seventeen-year-old Sacha Naimann dreams of writing a novel about her mother and killing the man who murdered her, Sacha's stepfather Vadim, while struggling to care for her younger siblings and leave behind her painful childhood.
The Space Between Us
Thrity Umrigar · 328 pages
Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture she is not permitted to sit on. She washes glasses from which she is not allowed to drink. Yet despite being separated from each other by blood and
Brass
Helen Walsh · 296 pages
Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men yet utterly forlorn. Increasingly disillusioned, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool . . . Shockingly candid and brutally poetic, Helen Walsh has created a portrait of a city and a generation that offers a female perspective on the harsh truth of growing up in today's Britain. Brass is an unsettling but ultimately
The Bitch Posse
Martha O'Connor · 352 pages
Inseparable friends in high school, a dysfunctional writer, a struggling family woman, and a mental hospital patient remember the 1988 confrontation that marked their lives and bound them together with a secret that never came to light.
La fruta del borrachero
Ingrid Rojas Contreras · 406 pages
Push
Sapphire · 176 pages
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as
Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff · 220 pages
A frank portrayal of Maori life in New Zealand. A powerful story in which everyone is a victim and through the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new alternative.