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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin · 163 pages
600 Hours of Edward
Craig Lancaster · 325 pages
Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be sequestered in his small house in a small city, where he keeps his distance from the outside world and the parents from whom he is largely estranged. For the most part, Edward sticks to things he can count on...and things he can count. But over the course of 25 days (or 600 hours, as Edward prefers to
Matchstick Men: A Novel About Grifters with Issues
Eric Garcia · 208 pages
"Roy and Frankie are matchstick men, con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one. Saves every penny. Takes his medication regularly. Without the pills, his obsessive-compulsive disorder kicks in and he is too nauseated to do anything but stare at the dirt on the carpet."--Jacket.
Addition
Toni Jordan · 256 pages
"Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local cafe (920). The number of poppy seeds on her orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to eat it. Grace counts everything, because that way there are no unpleasnabt surprises. Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19) thinks she might be better off without the counting. If she cou
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan · 251 pages
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREI cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page' Bill Bryson, -Sunday TimesOne windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Ros
Cutting Teeth
Julia Fierro · 329 pages
"One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green · 304 pages
**SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AZA NEVER INTENDED** to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at sake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter,
Don't Touch
Rachel M. Wilson · 415 pages
"16-year-old Caddie struggles with OCD, anxiety, and a powerful fear of touching another person's skin, which threatens her dreams of being an actress--until the boy playing Hamlet opposite her Ophelia gives her a reason to overcome her fears."--
The Nao of Brown
Glyn Dillon · 210 pages
Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown, who’s hafu (half Japanese, half English), is not well. She’s suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and fighting violent urges to harm other people. But that’s not who she really wants to be. Nao has dreams. She wants to quiet her unruly mind; she wants to get her design and illustration career off the ground; and she wants to find love, perfect love.
History Is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera · 299 pages
Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But when Theo dies in a drowning accident, the future he's been imagining for himself is gone. To make things worse, the only pers
Mr. Monk on the Road
Lee Goldberg · 291 pages
Determined to show his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, the outside world, Adrian Monk drugs him with sleeping pills and hits the road in a motor home only to become enmeshed in a murder investigation along the highway.
Finding Perfect
Elly Swartz · 308 pages
A classic-feeling middle-grade novel with a modern twist about a girl dealing with friendship, family, and OCD.
The Unfinished Garden
Barbara Claypole White · 392 pages
Optimists Die First
Susin Nielsen · 256 pages
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"-- Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. S
Mr. Monk Gets on Board
Hy Conrad · 297 pages
"Monk and Natalie board a cruise ship to attend a business seminar. But when the crew fishes the cruise director's body out of the water and the ship's doctor declares her death an accident, Monk suspects murder"--
Lights Out: An Into Darkness Novel
Navessa Allen · 416 pages
**“I don’t need another kink.”** That thought pops into my head whenever I pull up my favorite social media app, but alas, every time I scroll, I learn something new about myself, and another one is born. And yes, I know I’m responsible for what the algorithm shows me, but I’m trying to ignore that fact. Lately, my feed has been dominated by masked men. I’ve favorited videos with them dresse
Love And Other Near Death Experiences
Mil Millington · 256 pages
Perfect Escape
Jennifer Brown
Seventeen-year-old Kendra, living in the shadow of her brother's obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes a life-changing road trip with him.
The Goldfish Boy
Lisa Thompson · 313 pages
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt t
Vaclav and Lena
Haley Tanner · 292 pages
Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted mother. Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale, or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magici