If you liked South of Broad, what should you read next?

South of Broad

Pat Conroy

We found 36  books similar to South of Broad

Books
Page 1: Showing 1 - 10 of 36
#1

"A big, sprawling saga of a novel" (San Francisco Chronicle), this epic family drama is a masterwork by the revered author of The Great Santini.

Pat Conroy's classic novel stings with honesty and resounds with drama. Spanning forty years, it's the s... View details

It was five o’clock in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time when the telephone rang in my house on Sullivans Island, South Carolina. My wife, Sallie, and I had just sat down for a drink on the porch ov...
Liked The Prince of Tides?
See 508 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#2

New York Times Bestseller

The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True

"The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a ... View details

THEY WERE BOTH WORKING THEIR final shift at Blackjack Pizza that night, although nobody but the two of them realized it was that. Give them this much: they were talented secret-keepers. Patient planne...
Liked The Hour I First Believed?
See 41 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#3

This moving novel follows Louis Charles Lynch ("Lucy") as he and his wife of forty years are about to embark on a vacation to Italy.

Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy i... View details

My name is Louis Charles Lynch. I am sixty years old, and for nearly forty of those years I’ve been a devoted if not terribly exciting husband to the same lovely woman, as well as a doting father to O...
Liked Bridge of Sighs?
See 8 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#4

Narrated with simplicity and unabashed honesty, Elizabeth Flock's critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel Me & Emma is a vivid portrayal of a child's indomitable spirit, her incredible courage and the heartbreaking loss of innocence In ... View details

he first time Richard hit me I saw stars in front of my ey like they do in cartoons. It was just a backhand, though—no when I saw Tommy Bucksmith’s dad wallop him so hard that he hit the pavement his ...
Liked Me & Emma?
See 6 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#5

A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.

After 27 years of... View details

Viveca’s wedding dress has a name: Gaia. It’s lovely. Layers of sea green silk chiffon, cap sleeves, an empire waist, an asymmetrical A-line skirt with the suggestion of a train. I forget the designer...
Liked We Are Water?
See 11 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#6

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" (The Washington Post).

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisc... View details

Jack Reacher and Michelle Chang spent three days in Milwaukee. On the fourth morning she was gone. Reacher came back to the room with coffee and found a note on his pillow. He had seen such notes befo...
Liked The Midnight Line?
See 24 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#7

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal-they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book bu... View details

Richard Tull was crying in his sleep. The woman beside him, his wife, Gina, woke and turned. She moved up on him from behind and laid hands on his pale and straining shoulders. There was a professiona...
Liked The Information?
See 28 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#8

An American expatriate in Rome unearths his family legacy in this sweeping novel by the acclaimed author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini

A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to... View details

At six in the morning, the man at the newspaper stand arrives and begins arranging magazines beneath his canopy. Then a truck enters the piazza from the west carrying bales of Il Messaggero and other ...
Liked Beach Music?
See 48 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#9

Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine - fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife - beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would b... View details

In the Cordova Hotel, near the docks of Barcelona, fourteen Marine Corps fighter pilots from the aircraft carrier Forrestal were throwing an obstreperously spirited going away party for Lieutenant Col...
Liked The Great Santini?
See 35 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
#10

Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction-A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always "compelling, devastating, and furiously good" (Zadie Smith)

Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger bro... View details

The warning sign: last year, Thanksgiving at their house. Twenty or thirty people were at tables spreading from the dining room into the living room and stopping abruptly at the piano bench. He was at...
Liked May We Be Forgiven?
See 32 similar books
Save As:
Rate It:
Page 1 of 4Next Page
Poor experience?
Please Help Us Improve