Books like Lust for Life
12 books with a reading profile close to Lust for Life by Irving Stone. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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1
The Miracle Worker
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
The play chronicles the arrival of Annie Sullivan at the Keller household to instruct young Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf following an infant illness.
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2
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
narrative, classic literature
Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish-American immigrant in late nineteenth-century Nebraska, inherits her father’s struggling farm amid a harsh prairie landscape.
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3
The Red Badge of Courage
narrative, classic literature
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the American Civil War who enlists with romanticized visions of heroic combat.
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4
Empire Falls
narrative, classic literature
Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill, a greasy spoon in a decaying Maine logging town owned by the wealthy Whiting family.
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5
Daughter of Fortune
narrative, classic literature
In mid-nineteenth-century Valparaiso, Eliza Sommers is raised as a foundling by a rigid British family.
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6
The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
narrative, classic literature
Alessandra Cecchi is the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in fifteenth-century Florence, a city transitioning from the height of humanist art to the religious fervor of the monk Savonarola.
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7
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
biography, narrative
This historical novel depicts the scandalous love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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8
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
by Jeff Hobbs
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Jeff Hobbs chronicles the life of his Yale roommate, Robert Peace, a gifted student from Newark, New Jersey, who navigated the tensions between an elite Ivy League education and his neighborhood roots.
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9
Oliver Twist
Also clear-cut · narrative, classic literature
Born in a bleak parish workhouse, Oliver Twist begins his life as a nameless orphan struggling against the systemic cruelty of the English poor laws.
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10
By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, classic literature
This novel follows two women separated by centuries who both navigate the constraints placed on female authorship.
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11
Christmas Carol and Other Stories
Also clear-cut · narrative, classic literature
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly lender in Victorian London who views charity as a waste and poverty as a personal failing.
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12
Evangeline
narrative, classic literature
Set in 1755 during the Expulsion of the Acadians, this epic poem follows the separation of two lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse.
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