Books like Youth

12 books to read next

• Martin Eden Jack London 7.5 h
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows 5.3 h
• Ask the Dust John Fante 3.8 h
• Baudolino Umberto Eco 9.7 h
• No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe 3.1 h
• Vanity of Duluoz Jack Kerouac, Brice Matthieussent 5.1 h
• The Secret of the Nagas Amish Tripathi 7.6 h
• Mr Gwyn Alessandro Baricco, Xavier González Rovira 3.4 h
• Wicked Widow Jayne Ann Krentz 6.0 h
• Reef Romesh Gunesekera 3.5 h
• The History of Love Nicole Krauss 5.0 h
• Forbidden Colors Yukio Mishima, Noriko Thunman 7.4 h

How long each takes

Martin Eden Jack London 7.5 h The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows 5.3 h Ask the Dust John Fante 3.8 h Baudolino Umberto Eco 9.7 h No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe 3.1 h Vanity of Duluoz Jack Kerouac, Brice Matthieussent 5.1 h The Secret of the Nagas Amish Tripathi 7.6 h Mr Gwyn Alessandro Baricco, Xavier González Rovira 3.4 h Wicked Widow Jayne Ann Krentz 6.0 h Reef Romesh Gunesekera 3.5 h The History of Love Nicole Krauss 5.0 h Forbidden Colors Yukio Mishima, Noriko Thunman 7.4 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.