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24 books with the same feel
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Susan Fletcher · 367 pages
Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Here, Moira confesses. She admits to her childhood selfishness, adult bitterness and all the wickedness in her life. But it's only at Amy's beside that she sees the real truth: she's been a cruel sister - and it's this cruelty that has led them both to this point.
The Maytrees
Annie Dillard · 216 pages
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems. Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They li
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Sena Jeter Naslund · 688 pages
"Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe. In the "soprano voice" whose absence critics lamented in Moby-Dick - the strong, intelligent voice of a woman whose life is dominated by the sea - Naslund tells many stories. She narrates a family drama, as the child Una is sent away to live in a lighthouse by her mother in order to protect her from
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 272 pages
**From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.** Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is im
The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje · 296 pages
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
Jack Kerouac · 280 pages
« «Eh bien, l'heure avait pour moi sonné d'incarner le marin ivre sur le front de mer, ou le vagabond sur la route, tout en continuant à étudier et à écrire dans la solitude. Je n'avais rien appris à l'université qui puisse m'aider à devenir un écrivain, et je ne pouvais apprendre mon métier ailleurs que dans mon propre esprit et par mes propres expériences.» Paru en 1968, Vanité de Duluoz est le
The Story of a Marriage
Andrew Sean Greer · 266 pages
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only
The Tale of the Unknown Island
Jose Saramago · 46 pages
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig · 133 pages
On the Calculation of Volume I
Solvej Balle · 176 pages
Family Happiness
Leo Tolstoy · 176 pages
Short Stories. A selection of Tolstoy's greatest short works in a beautiful, new package.
Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson · 223 pages
Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas t
Circling the Sun
Paula McLain · 366 pages
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 190 pages
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that
Wild Dark Shore: Reese's Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Charlotte McConaghy · 315 pages
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever
Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Markson · 240 pages
The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy · 668 pages
PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born. Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low
The Pearl Diver
Jeff Talarigo · 248 pages
A nineteen-year-old Japanese pearl diver encounters prejudice and isolation when she is forced to live the remainder of her life at a leprosarium on the island of Nagashima even though medication has put her disease in remission.
Brendan
Frederick Buechner · 248 pages
An acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re-create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres.
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel
Monique Roffey · 240 pages
The Lily Of The Valley
Honore de Balzac
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Richard Flanagan · 404 pages
The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, this is a marvelous historical epic of 19th century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish.
Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
Dawn Tripp · 336 pages