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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRabbit, Run
John Updike · 307 pages
*Rabbit, Run* is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in
The Clowns of God
Morris West · 400 pages
In the near future Pope Gregory XVII is forced to abdicate after claiming to have received a private revelation of the end of the world.
The Siren
Tiffany Reisz · 376 pages
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages
Truly Like Lightning
David Duchovny · 445 pages
The Book of Jonah
Joshua Max Feldman · 352 pages
A modern retelling of the biblical story of Jonah featuring Manhattan lawyer Jonah Jacobstein. Jonah is a wildly successful hunk with two women at his beck and call when he has a biblical vision that changes his life; thereafter, he suffers some terrible losses but also meets a woman whose quiet intensity changes his life.
Disobedience
Naomi Alderman · 240 pages
By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her prov
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Robert Dugoni · 448 pages
Left Behind
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins · 468 pages
Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun
Priest
Sierra Simone · 354 pages
There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God. I've always been good at following rules. Until she came. Then I learned new rules. My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again. I
Saint Maybe
Anne Tyler · 337 pages
Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, when I
Conviction
Kelly Loy Gilbert · 355 pages
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"-- Braden questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder. The plot contains pervasive profanity, violence, and drug use.
The Weight of Ink
Rachel Kadish · 576 pages
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya · 252 pages
Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
Chocolat
Joanne Harris · 319 pages
A tantalising novel about the ultimate luxury and sin: that dark mistress, chocolate.Try me...Test me...Taste me.When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock – especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-den
Stealing Parker
Miranda Kenneally · 258 pages
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman · 531 pages
In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek Byrnison the armored bear and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent Amber Spyglass. An assassin hunts her down, and Lord Asriel, with a troop of shinin
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene · 217 pages
"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, of which he is the narrator. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous love affair with Sarah Miles - a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exor
Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
Lucas Klauss · 340 pages
A fifteen-year-old high school student becomes involved with an evangelical Christian girl in spite of his father's adamant atheism and his own confusion about life.
Matters of Faith
Kristy Kiernan · 321 pages
After a childhood train accident claims the life of his best friend, Marshall Tobias embarks on a search for faith, delving into one tradition after another. His parents focus on his little sister Megan who suffers from severe food allergies, until, on a break from college, he brings his new girlfriend, Ada, a young woman who believes in the evils of medical intervention.
The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn
Janis Hallowell · 336 pages
A remarkable debut novel that 'dares us to imagine mystery in our lives, in our time?book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday' – Boston GlobeTold from the viewpoints of four unforgettable characters, The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn is the story of an ordinary girl who is believed to be a modern–day Holy Virgin. At the heart of the story is Fra