Hating Olivia: A Love Story

10 best books like Hating Olivia: A Love Story (Mark SaFranko): Losing Clementine, Women, Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, The Lifeboat, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain, Spitting Off Tall Buildings, 86'd, Under Lying, Howard Stern Comes Again, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

Losing Clementine

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...

Women

Author	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	0061177598

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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic...

Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

Author	Neely Tucker
ISBN	1400081602

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't...

The Lifeboat

Author	Charlotte Rogan
ISBN	0316185906

In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace Winter and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.

Adrift...

Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain

Author	Sarah Vallance
ISBN	1542043026

The searing, wry memoir about a woman’s fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury.

When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she’s walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s led from work to...

Spitting Off Tall Buildings

Author	Dan Fante
ISBN	1841951900

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Novelist, playwright and poet Dan Fante is the second son of John Fante.
He is well regarded in Europe and his novels include Mooch, Chump Change and Spitting off Tall Buildings

Stop...

86'd

Author	Dan Fante
ISBN	0061779229

In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former...

Under Lying

Author	Janelle Harris
ISBN	1542092639

In this gripping novel of suspense, the disappearance of a couple’s baby daughter leaves everyone a suspect.

Susan has everything she ever wanted. A loving husband, an angelic daughter and the cottage of her dreams in County Cork. Her picture-perfect life seems too good to be true. And it...

Howard Stern Comes Again

Author

Howard Stern

Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president.

Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities—discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality,...

High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

Author	Tiffany Jenkins
ISBN	0593135938

A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 felony charges. Now, she's clean and sober, a married mother of three. As she found her way in her new life, she started sharing on social media as an outlet for her depression and anxiety. She struck a chord,...