Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury

9 best books like Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury (Alison Light): The Secrets Between Us, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Beijing Payback, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence

The Secrets Between Us

Author	Thrity Umrigar
ISBN	0062442201

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself...

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Author	Jodi Kantor
ISBN	0525560343

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement

For many years, reporters...

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Author	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN	0679733760

I read this book 15 years ago shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and it was amazing then, and I was equally impressed this time. In fact I was surprised as I read how much of it I could remember reading even that many years ago, so it must have made a deep impression.

I'm just in awe if LTU, the depth and...

Beijing Payback

Author	Daniel Nieh
ISBN	0062886665

Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years.

Victor...

Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

Author	Peter Stark
ISBN	0062218298

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled...

The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

Author	Hugo Hamilton
ISBN	0007156634

"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled People." In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950s Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking,...

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Author	Jane Dunn
ISBN	1860498515

3.5 stars rounded up
This is a very interesting book about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf; it isn’t a joint biography. Dunn is looking at their relationship with and influence on each other over the years the rivalry and competitiveness as well as love and support. The relationship was certainly...

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

Author	Emilie Autumn
ISBN	0998990922

Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy... their doctors.

"It was the dog who found me."

Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie...

Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	0156029324

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach."
-from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street"

The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait...