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Read-a-likes
*Titles marked with (J/YA) may be found in the Children’s or Young Adult sections of the Library.
If you liked The Double Bind by Chris Bojhalian, you may want to try:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
Other books by Chris Bohjalian:
Before You Know Kindness
The Buffalo Soldier
The Law of Similars
Midwives
Skeletons at the Feast
Trans-Sister Radio
Water Witches
If you liked Chocolat by Joanne Harris, you may want to try:
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Chez Moi by Agnes Desarthe
Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
If you liked The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, you may want to try:
Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay
Me & Emma by Ellizabeth Flock
When Madeline was Young by Jane Hamilton
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
A Song I Knew By Heart by Bret Lott
The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
Was it Beautiful? by Alison McGhee
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
The Brambles by Eliza Minot
Brother and Sister by Joanna Trollope
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
If you liked Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, you may want to try:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
If you liked The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, you may want to try:
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Mango Season by Amylya Malladi
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
If you liked Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, you may want to try:
Adele : Jane Eyre’s Hidden Story by Emma Tennant
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
If you liked Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, you may want to try:
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Cleopatra’s Sister by Penelope Lively
The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Other books by Ann Patchett:
The Magician’s Assistant
The Patron Saint of Liars
Run
Taft
If you liked Brick Lane by Monica Ali, you may want to try:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Maps for Lost Lovers by Adlam Nadeem
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
If you liked Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, you may want to try:
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Orchard Fire by Shena MacKay
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
If you liked A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, you may want to try:
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Boswell's Presumptuous Task : The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman
The Center Cannot Hold : My Journey through Madness by Elyn R. Saks
Charles Darwin : The Power of Place by Janet Browne
De Kooning : an American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Einstein : His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson.
The Essential John Nash edited by Harold Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
James Tiptree, Jr : The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
The Man Who Knew Infinity : a Life of the Mathematical Genius, Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
If you liked Charming Billy by Alice McDermott, you may want to try:
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
Evening by Susan Minot
Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen
If you liked Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, you may want to try:
The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter
by Benjamin Woolley
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo [1623-1633]
translated and annotated by Dava Sobel.
Longitude: the True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester
If you liked Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, you may want to try:
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
If you liked The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, you may want to try:
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
If you liked The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
by James McBride, you may want to try:
Ace of Spades: a Memoir by David Matthews
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
Dreams from my Father: a Story of Race and Family by Barack Obama
Life on the Color Line: the True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He was Black
by Gregory Howard Williams
Mixed: My Life in Black and White by Angela Nissel
Roots by Alex Haley
Secret Daughter: a Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother who Gave Her Away by June Cross
The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification by Caille Miller
The Sweet Hell Inside by Edward Ball
We Jews and Blacks: Memoirs with Poems by Willis Barnstone
If you liked The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
you may want to try:
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Finn by Jon Clinch
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you liked The Known World by Edward P. Jones, you may want to try:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
If you liked Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, you may want to try:
A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
If you liked In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, you may want to try:
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story by John Berendt
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
If you liked The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, you may want to try:
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
The Face of a Naked Lady : An Omaha Family Mystery by Michael Rips
If you liked Amagansett by Mark Mills, you may want to try:
First Lady by Michael Malone
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
If you liked Three Junes by Julia Glass, you may want to try:
Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
If you liked House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, you may want to try:
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
If you liked The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, you may want to try:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (J/YA)
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman (J/YA)
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten
If you liked The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, you may want to try:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
If you liked Best Intentions by Robert Sam Anson, you may want to try:
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
If you liked The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler, you may want to try:
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
If you liked East of Eden by John Steinbeck, you may want to try:
Eventide by Ken Haruf
Plainsong by Ken Haruf
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
If you liked The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, you may want to try:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
If you liked Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin, you may want to try:
Praying for Gil Hodges by Thomas Oliphant
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
If you liked The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, you may want to try:
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rusdie
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
If you liked Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, you may want to try:
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Push by Sapphire
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
If you liked Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, you may want to try:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Veiled Courage: Inside Afghan Women’s Resistance by Cheryl Benard
If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, you may want to try:
Family History by Dani Shapiro
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Worst Thing I’ve Done by Ursula Hegi
If you liked Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, you may want to try:
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Waiting by Ha Jin
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
If you liked Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah Delany, you may want to try:
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
The Color of Water by James McBride
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
If you liked A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering American on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson, you may want to try:
If you liked Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, you may want to try:
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (J/YA)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (J/YA)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pemberley by Emma Tennant
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
(Also see our Jane Austen Booklist)
If you liked Life of Pi by Yann Martel, you may want to try:
If you liked A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, you may want to try:
A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard
King Lear by William Shakespeare
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
If you liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, you may want to try:
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (J/YA)
Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
Spilling Clarence by Anne Ursu
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
If you liked Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout, you may want to try:
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
If you liked One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus, you may want to try:
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
If you liked Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks, you may want to try:
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (J/YA)
If you liked We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates, you may want to try:
And Give You Peace by Jessica Treadway
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
If you liked Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, you may want to try:
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Zorro by Isabel Allende
If you liked The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway, you may want to try:
If you liked Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, you may want to try:
If you liked Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, you may want to try:
If you liked Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, you may want to try:
If you liked Empire Falls by Richard Russo, you may want to try:
If you liked Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, you may want to try:
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
If you liked Bee Season by Myla Goldberg, you may want to try:
If you liked Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, you may want to try:
If you liked Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg, you may want to try:
If you liked Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, you may want to try:
If you liked Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, you may want to try:
If you liked Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, you may want to try:
If you liked Before and After by Rosellen Brown, you may want to try:
If you liked One True Thing by Anna Quindlan, you may want to try:
If you liked The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, you may want to try:
If you liked Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, you may want to try:
House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
If you liked Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi, you may want to try:
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Floating in my Mother’s Palm by Ursula Hegi
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
If you liked Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman, you may want to try:
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
If you liked Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, you may want to try:
Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamont
Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg
So B. It by Sarah Weeks (J/YA)
Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
If you liked A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, you may want to try:
Billy by Albert French
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
If you liked Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, you may want to try:
The Good Mother by Sue Miller
The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
The Pact by Jodi Picoult (J/YA)
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
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