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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEverything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer · 288 pages
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis, Jr, J
The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated
Nick Bantock · 56 pages
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 165 pages
Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. But Calvino is describing only one city - Venice. Invisible Cities has been described as Calvino's most beautiful work.
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende · 433 pages
"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a
Radiance
Catherynne M. Valente · 432 pages
Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar · 209 pages
The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George · 392 pages
“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.” Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floa
Wonders of a Godless World
Andrew McGahan · 327 pages
Confession of the Lioness
Mia Couto · 208 pages
Snake Ropes
Jess Richards · 343 pages
Set in a dystopian but recognizable world on an island off the edge of the map, where women rule and justice is meted out in a mysterious structure called the Thrashing House. When the story begins, Mary is doing her best to protect her younger brother as the sons on the island are mysteriously disappearing, while Morgan is scheming to escape the prison her parents have made of their home. The two
The Grass Dancer
Susan Power · 333 pages
Presented in the form of interconnected short stories, each told from a different point of view, this novel provides the reader with a snapshot of the life of one tribe from the 1860s through the 1980s.
The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman · 512 pages
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.
The Last World
Christoph Ransmayr · 246 pages
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey · 389 pages
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-hai
In Calabria
Peter S. Beagle · 175 pages
"Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry. But one chilly morning, as though from a dream, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he
Thursbitch
Alan Garner · 167 pages
"John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his ancient and static community. In the novel, John brings ideas as well as gifts which have come, by many short journeys, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. John Turner's death in the eighteenth century leaves an emotional
In the Penny Arcade
Steven Millhauser · 164 pages
The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from "August Eschenburg," the story of the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supercedes that of the refined and beautiful, to "Cathay," a king
Touch
Alexi Zentner · 272 pages
In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Stephen, a pastor, is at home on the eve of his mother's funeral, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned to the town in search of his beloved but long-dead w
In the Country of the Young
Lisa Carey · 288 pages
Four Souls
Louise Erdrich · 210 pages
A strange and compelling unkillable woman decides to leave home, and the story begins. Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and she quickly finds her intentions c