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10 best books like Enon (Paul Harding): The Two Hotel Francforts, His Wife Leaves Him, Jacob's Folly, The Affairs of Others, The Residue Years, Sparta, The Facades, The Realm of Last Chances, As Sweet as Honey, Traveling Sprinkler

The Two Hotel Francforts
AuthorDavid Leavitt
ISBN1596910429
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe—a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan, two couples meet:...
His Wife Leaves Him
AuthorStephen Dixon
ISBN1606996045
Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years — His Wife Leaves Him, a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. His Wife Leaves Him is as achingly simple as its title: A man, Martin, thinks about the loss...
Jacob's Folly
AuthorRebecca Miller
ISBN0374178542
A luminous novel-funny and moving in equal measure-that shines with the author's unique talents

Jacob's Folly is a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, acting-and reincarnation.

In eighteenth-century...
The Affairs of Others
AuthorAmy Grace Loyd
ISBN1250041295
A MESMERIZING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN, HAUNTED BY LOSS, WHO REDISCOVERS PASSION AND POSSIBILITY WHEN SHE'S DRAWN INTO THE TANGLED LIVES OF HER NEIGHBORS

Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved...
The Residue Years
AuthorMitchell S. Jackson
ISBN1620400286
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come...
Sparta
AuthorRoxana Robinson
ISBN0374709572
Going from peace to war can make a young man into a warrior. Going from war to peace can destroy him.



Conrad Farrell has no family military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic. "Semper Fidelis" comes...
The Facades
AuthorEric Lundgren
ISBN1468306871
Along the streets of the once-great Midwestern city of Trude, the ornate old buildings lie in ruin. Shrouded in disappointment and nostalgia, Trude has become a place to “lose yourself,” as one tourist brochure puts it: a treacherous maze of convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries,...
The Realm of Last Chances
AuthorSteve Yarbrough
ISBN0385349505
In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling novel yet.

When Kristin Stevens loses her administrative job...
As Sweet as Honey
AuthorIndira Ganesan
ISBN0307960447
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...
Traveling Sprinkler
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0399160965
cross-posted at: http://themocentricuniverse.blogspot....

i adore nicholson baker's writing voice and i really feel i can give no higher compliment than this: quite often it is how a writer's voice resonates with me that makes or breaks a novel for me; no matter what craft it might otherwise...
The Book of Someday
AuthorDianne Dixon
ISBN1402285728
Three women. One stranger in a shimmering silver dress. Whatever binds them together has already destroyed one life. It just might consume them all.

Someday, Livvi Gray will break free from her past. Someday, she will escape her recurring nightmare about that stranger in a shimmering silver...
The Measures Between Us
AuthorEthan Hauser
ISBN1620401150
An unprecedented storm is threatening the East Coast, swelling the rivers and muddying the roads, and in a small suburb of Boston, a group of intimates and strangers struggles to confront a rapidly changing world. Vincent, a high school shop teacher, grapples with whether to hospitalize his only daughter....
Damage Control: Stories
AuthorAmber Dermont
ISBN0312642814
A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea

Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In “Lyndon,” a daughter visits presidential landmarks...
Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence
AuthorDavid Samuel Levinson
ISBN1565129180
One writer’s mysterious death, another’s relentless quest for fame, and a bitter literary critic’s passion for manipulation drive the story of this haunting novel set in a small upstate New York college town in the 1990s.

Catherine Strayed wonders if she’ll ever know the truth about...
Necessary Errors
AuthorCaleb Crain
An exquisite debut novel that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague 

It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s revolution, but he still hopes to find its...
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
AuthorHoward Norman
ISBN0547385420
As with many of us, the life of acclaimed novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of “arresting strangeness.” Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norman has done in this spellbinding memoir, to show how life tangles with the psyche to become art. Norman’s story begins with a portrait,...
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
AuthorShelby Foote
ISBN0393317684
In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Walker Percy, the highly regarded author of The Moviegoer, wrote six novels, two volumes of philosophical writings,...
Apology
AuthorJon Pineda
ISBN1571311041
When nine-year-old Tom Serafino’s twin sister Teagan suffers a debilitating brain injury, a police investigation implicates his playmate Mario’s uncle—an immigrant, transient worker known as Shoe. Innocent of the crime but burdened by his own childhood tragedy, Shoe takes the blame for...
The Revolution of Every Day
AuthorCari Luna
ISBN1935639641
In the midnineties, New York’s Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a community of squatters who staked their claims on abandoned tenements and lived and worked within their own parameters, accountable to no one but each other. On May 30, 1995, the NYPD rolled an armored tank down East...
Nine Inches
AuthorTom Perrotta
ISBN1250034701
Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories―some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing. Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers―and their love lost and found―in "Nine Inches", documenting the unraveling of...
Problems with People
AuthorDavid Guterson
ISBN0385351488
Ten sharply observed, funny, and wise new stories from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: stunning explorations of the mysteries of love and our complex desire for connection.

Ranging from youth to old age, the voices that inhabit Problems with People offer tender, unexpected,...
A Beautiful Truth
AuthorColin McAdam
ISBN1616953152
Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, set in a Vermont home and a Florida primate research facility, A Beautiful Truth at times brutal, at others deeply moving is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure of belonging, and the capacity...
All Days Are Night
AuthorPeter Stamm
ISBN1590516966
A novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, by Peter Stamm, finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize

All Days Are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful TV host, content with her marriage to Matthias, even if she feels restless at times. One night following...
At the Bottom of Everything
AuthorBen Dolnick
ISBN0307907988
A stunning novel of friendship, guilt, and madness: two friends, torn apart by a terrible secret, and the dark adventure that neither of them ever meant to embark upon.

It's been ten years since the "incident," and Adam has long decided he's better off without his former best friend, Thomas....
Vatican Waltz
AuthorRoland Merullo
ISBN0307452956
This book is for those who want a journey of the soul.
What were your feelings about God, the Divine, your own soul when
you were growing up? Did you go to the church of your parents?
Being in that building, where your family said their prayers, did
it inspire you also?
This book is about...
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