Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
10 best books like Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Eric Hodgins): The Printed Letter Bookshop, My Life in France, The Last Book Party, This Is Happiness, Zuleika Dobson, Little, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, Noah Barleywater Runs Away: A Fairytale, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Little Fur Family
The Printed Letter Bookshop
| Author | Katherine Reay |
| ISBN | 0785222006 |
One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles...
My Life in France
| Author | Julia Child |
| ISBN | 1400043468 |
Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television...
The Last Book Party
| Author | Karen Dukess |
| ISBN | 1250225477 |
In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant...
This Is Happiness
| Author | Niall Williams |
The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain
Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years.
For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers...
| Author | Max Beerbohm |
Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford, to visit her grandfather, the college warden. Formerly a governess, she has landed on the occupation of prestidigitator,...
Little
| Author | Edward Carey |
| ISBN | 0525534326 |
In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents,...
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
| Author | Julie Kibler |
In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...
Noah Barleywater Runs Away: A Fairytale
| Author | John Boyne |
| ISBN | 0385618956 |
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
| Author | John Medina |
| ISBN | 0979777704 |
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do...
Little Fur Family
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0060518987 |
warm as toast
smaller than most
in little fur coats
and they lived in a warm wooden tree.
The Little Fur Family tells the story of a little fur child's day in the woods. The day ends when his big fur parents tuck him in bed "all soft and warm," and sing...
| Author | Nigel Williams |
| ISBN | 0571173667 |
Me: "The Wimbledon Poisoner. It's about a man trying to poison his wife."
This is a black comedy out of Britain, which some passages I found laugh out funny but others might find cringe-worthy. This confirms to me I'm a little bit warped.
I concede this novel...
| Author | Ann Weil |
| ISBN | 0140328580 |
Tragedy at Law
| Author | Cyril Hare |
| ISBN | 0330377388 |
I liked this but called it pretty early, then spent the rest of the book paranoid that my solution was a red herring....
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0571225578 |
Before the internet in Britain, there was a thing called Fleet Street. This was as much a culture as a location. It sat culturally and geographically midway between the commercial city of London and the seat of government in Westminster. It produced something called newspapers,...
| Author | George Barr McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1406956155 |
The Man Who Couldn't Eat
| Author | Jon Reiner |
| ISBN | 1439192464 |
“I’m a glutton in a greyhound’s body, a walking contradiction, in the grip of the one thing I can’t have—food.” Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine; heritage, hot pastrami club with a half-sour pickle; guilty pleasures, a chocolate rum-soaked...
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
| Author | Charlie Mackesy |
| ISBN | 1529105102 |
'You will not be able to buy a more beautiful book for Christmas for somebody you love' Chris Evans
A book of hope for uncertain times.
Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their...