Read-alikes and related books

Books like Labor Day: A Novel

Looking for read-alikes for Labor Day: A Novel by Joyce Maynard? These 24 titles overlap in NEW HAMPSHIRE_FICTION, MOTHERS AND SONS_FICTION, FICTION_COMING OF AGE, and FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL and overall literary texture.

Top related books to Labor Day: A Novel

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics) — D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

The Secret Life of Bees: Tie In Edition

Sue Monk Kidd

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

A Visitation of Spirits: A Novel

Randall Kenan

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Harper Lee

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

Alice Adams

Booth Tarkington

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

Trespass: A Novel

Valerie Martin

Themes: MOTHERS AND SONS_FICTION • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

Girls in Trucks

Katie Crouch

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

Riceyman Steps: A Novel (Oxford Paperbacks)

Arnold Bennett

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#10

The Summer of Naked Swim Parties: A Novel (P.S.)

Jessica Anya Blau

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE

#11

We Disappear: A Novel

Scott Heim

Themes: MOTHERS AND SONS_FICTION

#12

Celestino Antes Del Alba (Coleccion Caniqui) (Spanish Edition)

Reinaldo Arenas

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#13

First Light (Contemporary American Fiction)

Charles Baxter

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#14

Beautiful Day: A Novel

Elin Hilderbrand

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#15

All Over Town

R. F. Delderfield

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#16

Something Old, Something New: A Blessings Novel (Blessings Series, 3)

Beverly Jenkins

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#17

Shadow Tag: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#18

Vernon God Little A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death

D. B. C. Pierre

Themes: FICTION_COMING OF AGE

#19

The Orchardist: A Novel

Amanda Coplin

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#20

Shadow Spell (The Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy, 2)

Nora Roberts

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#21

Witch’s Boy, The

Michael Gruber

Themes: MOTHERS AND SONS_FICTION

#22

Mama Zooms

Jane Cowen-Fletcher

Themes: MOTHERS AND SONS_FICTION

#23

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#24

The Rain Watcher: A Novel

Tatiana de Rosnay

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of NEW HAMPSHIRE_FICTION, MOTHERS AND SONS_FICTION, FICTION_COMING OF AGE — the same threads that run through Labor Day: A Novel by Joyce Maynard. Among the authors featured: D.H. Lawrence, Sue Monk Kidd, Randall Kenan, Harper Lee, and others.