Lives of Girls and Women

Contemporary Literary Fiction

Author: Alice Munro

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940’s.Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family f….Read More

9 Books Similar to Lives of Girls and Women

Olive Kitteridge

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby,… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Maine, Women Teachers

Erebos

An intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda.,,When 16-year-old Nick receives a package containing the mysterious computer game Erebos, he wonders if it will explain the behavior of his classmates,… Continue Reading Posted in: Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult

Old School

At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the… Continue Reading Posted in: Authors, Psychological Fiction, United States

Mark Antony’s Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor

This fourth book in Dando-Collins's definitive history of Rome's legions tells the story of Rome's 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the… Continue Reading Posted in: History, Military, Nonfiction

Rabbit at Rest

Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo,… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Middle Aged Men

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Fiction, Classic Historical Fiction, Domestic Fiction, English Fiction, United States

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still… Continue Reading Posted in: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion

Wonder Boys

Grady Tripp is a pot-bellied, pot-smoking, over-sexed, aging novelist, struggling to finish the long-awaited follow-up to his award-winning novel. He teaches creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while battling with… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Humorous American Literature, Literary Satire Fiction, United States

The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

From Mordecai Richler, one of the greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Humorous Stories, Immigrant Families, Literary Fiction, Literature

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