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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson · 396 pages
Killers of a Certain Age
Deanna Raybourn · 368 pages
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
Benjamin Stevenson · 358 pages
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Marianne Cronin · 352 pages
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
Elizabeth Stuckey-French · 333 pages
In 1953, Dr. Wilson Spriggs gave Marylou Ahearn a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study that had horrible consequences. For 50 years she's been plotting her revenge. At last she's found Spriggs.
Crimes Against a Book Club
Kathy Cooperman · 310 pages
To make the fast money both best friends need, lawyer Sarah and chemist Annie create an antiaging face cream to sell to Annie's La Jolla book club, but the illegal ingredient Annie includes could become their undoing.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg · 403 pages
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Ala
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty · 482 pages
Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover
We Are All Made Of Glue
Marina Lewycka · 419 pages
From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, a bonker lady. The story of a very unlikely friendship.Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down.So when Georg
The Widows of Eastwick
John Updike · 308 pages
After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie--now widowed but still witches--return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license and liberation is now a "haven of wholesomeness" populated by hockey moms and h
The Red Hat Club
Haywood Smith · 399 pages
Best friends since high school, a tightly knit club of five southern women rallies together when one of their husbands is discovered to be having an affair.
Animals
Emma Jane Unsworth · 249 pages
You know how it is. Saturday afternoon. You wake up and you can't move. I blinked and the floaters on my eyeballs shifted to reveal Tyler in her ratty old kimono over in the doorway. 'Way I see it,' she said, glass in one hand, lit cigarette in the other, 'girls are tied to beds for two reasons: sex and exorcisms. So, which was it with you?' Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together, angr
The First Wives Club
Olivia Goldsmith · 480 pages
Elise, Brenda and Annie were all first wives inhabiting the headier spheres of New York society. Then in their forties, with their husbands at the pinnacle of success, they were abandoned for "trophy wives"--Younger, blonder and more decorative models. Now, they form "The First Wives Club" with the mission of getting even.
A Friend of the Earth
T.C. Boyle · 288 pages
Last Chance Saloon
Marian Keyes · 511 pages
Ever since legwarmers were cool, best friends Tara, Katherine, and Fintan have survived small-town ennui, big-city heartbreak, and endless giddy nights out on the town. But now that they've graduated to their slightly more serious thirties, only Fintan has what can honestly be called a "love life." With Tara struggling daily with her eternal diet -- and her dreadful, penny-pinching boyfriend -- an
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty
Amanda Filipacchi · 334 pages
"Meet the Knights of Creation, a group of artistic friends struggling with society's standards of beauty. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, chooses to don a fat suit in hopes that it will help her meet the man of her dreams--a man who can see beyond her looks. Lily, Barb's brilliantly talented, unfortunate-looking musician friend, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the shallow man s
Ya-Yas in Bloom
Rebecca Wells · 336 pages
Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery
Rachel Ekstrom Courage · 336 pages
How to Kill Your Husband {and Other Handy Household Hints}
Kathy Lette · 336 pages
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Shehan Karunatilaka · 416 pages
Retired sportswriter W.G. Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son, and tracking down Pradeep S. Mathew, a spin bowler who has mysteriously disappeared.
There Should Be More Dancing
Rosalie Ham · 345 pages
Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance from the wisdom of desktop calendars. She lived quietly in Gold Street, Brunswick for 60 years until events drove her to the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel. As she waits for the crowds in the atrium far below to disperse, she contemplates what went wrong; her best friend kept an astonishing secret from her and she can't trust the hom