Autobiography of Us
10 best books like Autobiography of Us (Aria Beth Sloss): Losing Clementine, What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, Schroder, Return to Oakpine, The Why of Things, More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right, A Thousand Pardons, Wise Men, The Explanation for Everything, Good Kids
| Author | Ashley Ream |
| ISBN | 0062093630 |
World renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard has decided that she’s done. After flushing away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends—finish one last painting, make nice with her ex-husband and find a home for her cat. Clementine...
What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories
| Author | Barbara Davilman |
| ISBN | 0312384726 |
What Was I Thinking? is a collection of first-person essays describing the moment in a relationship when, no matter how much you think it should work, or want it to work, or need it to work, you get that it’s not going to work. Maybe you overheard the wrong thing due to the physics-defying acoustics...
| Author | Amity Gaige |
| ISBN | 1455512133 |
Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.
Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years...
| Author | Ron Carlson |
| ISBN | 0670025070 |
From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo
In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four...
| Author | Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop |
| ISBN | 1451695756 |
From the critically acclaimed and “bitingly intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) author of December comes a buoyant and beautiful new novel about a family struggling in the aftermath of a suicide.
Since the tragic loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago,...
More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right
| Author | Laura Penny |
| ISBN | 0771070489 |
One of Canada's funniest and most incisive social critics reveals why in North America, where governments spend so much on schools and colleges, training is valued far more than education and loud-mouth ignoramuses are widely and publicly celebrated.
Public education in the United States...
| Author | Jonathan Dee |
| ISBN | 0812993217 |
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee’s novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really want when we ask for forgiveness?
Once a privileged...
| Author | Stuart Nadler |
| ISBN | 0316126489 |
Hilly Wise is the son of one of the most powerful and wealthy lawyers in the United States. When Hilly meets Savannah, a young black girl on the beach at Cape Cod during the summer of 1952, his affection for her collides with his father's secrets. The result shatters his family, and hers.
Years...
| Author | Lauren Grodstein |
| ISBN | 1616201126 |
The Explanation for Everything explores humankind's insatiable search for meaning, the risks and rewards of faith, and the salvation that love can offer us all.
Lauren Grodstein's New York Times bestselling novel A Friend of the Family was hailed as "such an incisive diagnosis of aspirational...
| Author | Benjamin Nugent |
| ISBN | 1439136599 |
The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. For readers of Chad Harbach and Jennifer Egan, and fans of filmmakers like Noah Baumbach.At fifteen, Josh Paquette...
| Author | Charles Dubow |
| ISBN | 0062201050 |
"Every story has a narrator. Someone who writes it down after it's all over. Why am I the narrator of this story? I am because it is the story of my life—and of the people I love most. . . ."
Harry and Madeleine Winslow have been blessed with talent, money, and charm. Harry is a National Book Award–winning...
| Author | Richard Lischer |
| ISBN | 0307960536 |
This poignant love story of a father for his son is at once funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful. In it a young man teaches his entire family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and, always, remarkable grace. This emotionally riveting account probes the heart without sentimentality or self-pity....
| Author | Cécile David-Weill |
| ISBN | 1590515730 |
A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes.
After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise a scheme for attracting a wealthy suitor who can afford to...
| Author | Indira Ganesan |
| ISBN | 0307960447 |
In her latest novel, Indira Ganesan, a writer often likened to Arundhati Roy and Chitra Divakaruni (see back of jacket for reviews), gives us an enchanting story of family life that is a dance of love and grief and rebirth set on a gorgeous island in the Indian Ocean.
The island is filled with exotic...
| Author | Jean Thompson |
| ISBN | 0399158715 |
After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn’t quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art’s neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster,...
| Author | Lucinda Rosenfeld |
| ISBN | 0316213551 |
Perfect. Pretty. Political. For nearly forty years, The Hellinger sisters of Hastings-on-Hudson-namely, Imperia (Perri), Olympia (Pia), and Augusta (Gus)--have played the roles set down by their loving but domineering mother Carol. Perri, a mother of three, rules her four-bedroom palace in...
| Author | Jennifer Gilmore |
| ISBN | 1451697252 |
Jesse and Ramon are a loving couple, but after years spent unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant, they turn to adoption, relieved to think that once they navigate the bureaucratic path to parent-hood they will have a happy ending. But nothing has prepared them for the labyrinthine process—for the...
| Author | Rebecca Dana |
| ISBN | 0399158774 |
The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . .
A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny....
| Author | Carlene Bauer |
| ISBN | 0547858248 |
A letter can spark a friendship.
A friendship can change your life.
In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists’ colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in...
The Social Climber's Guide to High School
| Author | Robyn Schneider |
| ISBN | 1416934278 |
THE ART OF THE CLIMB Meet the Social Climber. Charming to the masses, fully intriguing, she is nothing if not unique and confident. Call her a rising star, a fashion-forward thinker, just don't mistake her for the (let's admit it) arrogant and awful It Girl. The SC is far superior. She is the girl everyone...
Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head
| Author | Jen Larsen |
| ISBN | 1580054463 |
The brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman's journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created.
Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. So when diet after diet...
| Author | Christine Eddie |
| ISBN | 0864926197 |
Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth. Elena flees a house of blood and mayhem, taking refuge in a monastery and later in the rustic village of Riviere-aux-Oies. One day, while walking...
| Author | Thea Goodman |
| ISBN | 0805096620 |
A fresh, funny, and wisely observed debut novel about marriage—about the love, longing and ambivalence exposed when a husband takes the baby on a highly unusual outing
When Veronica Reed wakes up one frigid January morning, two things are “off”—first of all, she has had a good night’s...
"Trasandes eloquently renders the passionate and heartrending love story...it’s rare to root for all sides of a love triangle, but the author’s depth of insight into her characters makes this a wonderfully accomplished first novel."—Publisher's Weekly
An unforgettably haunting...
Got Milked?: The Great Dairy Deception and Why You'll Thrive Without Milk
| Author | Alissa Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0062362054 |
Refuting the milk industry’s overwhelmingly popular campaign—Got Milk?—which has convinced us that milk is essential, this scientific-based exposé, in the tradition of Wheat Belly and Grain Brain, proves why we don’t need dairy in our daily diets, how our dependence on it is actually...
