Cover of The Little Women

The Little Women

Sisters Meg, Jo and Amy have the perfect family—loving, creative parents; a comfortable life on Manhattan's Upper West Side; a future full of possibility. Perfect until the daughters discover their mother has had affair, and, even worse, that their father has forgiven her. Shattered by their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family, the two younger sisters leave New York and move to Meg's apartment in New Haven, where Meg is a junior at Yale. It is here that the girls will form their own family, divorced from their parents. The Little Womenis a chronicle of that year, wittily narrated as a novel written by the middle sister Jo and commented upon throughout by her sisters.

Audience
childrens
Length
medium · 256 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Little Women? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Little Women. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Dreamhouse Shares fiction, retelling
  2. The Deadly Neighbors Shares fiction
  3. The Wholeness of a Broken Heart Shares fiction, historical fiction
  4. The Children of Jocasta Shares fiction, retelling, historical fiction

“People who read The Little Women tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Beware Of The Storybook Wolves
  2. Close to You
  3. Drawn in Blood
  4. Mr. Darwin's Shooter

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction), start with these.”

  1. The Siege
  2. The God in Flight
  3. Joe College
  4. Secondhand Smoke

“If it was the retelling that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Abide with Me
  2. Scheherazade
  3. The Madness of Love
  4. Vinegar Girl

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. School for Good Mothers
  2. Finding Meara (An Adven Realm Adventure, Vol. 1)
  3. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
  4. Blue Jasmine