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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorFruits Basket, Vol. 1
Natsuki Takaya · 196 pages
Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal!
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
Ben Reeves · 256 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gorgeous reminder of what really matters. Prepare to be astounded.” —People • “One of the best, most moving books I have read in years.” —Scott Detrow, NPR • “This is one of the most affecting, original, and unforgettable novels I have ever read.” —Sarah Damoff, author of The Bright Years For fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans, an astonishing novel about fin
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery · 325 pages
EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence. Her secret is discovered by a young resident of the building named Paloma. The novel is narrated alternately by each of these two characters. Fir
The Guest Cat
Takashi Hiraide · 142 pages
The Guest Cat is a subtly moving novel that conveys deeply felt ways of being. Two writers, a young couple, enjoy their quiet cottage in a leafy part of Tokyo: they work at home as freelance editors. One day a cat invites herself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys, radiated by the fleeting loveliness of life
Love Saves the Day: A Novel
Gwen Cooper · 336 pages
What a Wonderful World!, Vol. 2
Inio Asano · 208 pages
Matthew Flinders' Cat
Bryce Courtenay · 610 pages
Bill O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinder's cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship
Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki
Mamoru Hosoda · 538 pages
When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing she expects to learn is that he is part wolf. Instead of rejecting her lover upon learning his secret, she accepts him with open arms. Soon, the couple is expecting their first child, and a cozy picture of family life unfolds. But after what seems like a mere moment of bliss to Hana, the father of h
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami · 224 pages
"The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments - until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal ye
Red Dog
Louis de Bernieres · 128 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1912222W.
Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King · 656 pages
From the Flap: "ALTHOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, THE SIXTIES ARE NOT FICTIONAL; THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED."* Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war--and the protests against it--had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. He
The Friendship Doll
Kirby Larson · 201 pages
I am Miss Kanagawa, Master Tatsuhiko's finest -- and final -- creation. In 1927, my fifty-seven doll-sisters and I were sent to this country as ambassadors of friendship. Oh! The parties and receptions and admirers. But let me assure you, it wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. Some rice brains thought me only a plaything, unaware that I was a samurai in silk. In your hands you hold my story (
Extreme Vinyl Cafe
Stuart McLean · 265 pages
The further adventures of Dave, Morley and their family which include stardom for their son, a renegade cat and an eighty-seven-year-old bungee jumper.
The Last Leaf
O. Henry · 44 pages
A sick artist with no will to live feels she will die when the last leaf falls from the tree by her window--yet for some reason the leaf hangs on.
Big Cat, Little Cat
Elisha Cooper · 39 pages
There was a cat who lived alone. Until the day a new cat came ... And so a story of friendship begins, following two cats through their days, months, and years until one day, the older cat has to go. And he doesn t come back.
The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter · 308 pages
Ein Alptraum reißt den Schriftsteller Charles aus dem Schlaf. Er weiß, dass er keine Ruhe mehr findet und beschließt einen Spaziergang zu machen. Er trifft seinen Freund Bradley Smith der, so wie er, die Nacht betrachtet. Die beiden beginnen zu rden - über die Liebe und über das Leben. Und so entfaltet sich ein ganzes Panorma von Geschichten, in denen es stets um das Eine geht: Gefühle.