The Beginners
10 best books like The Beginners (Rebecca Wolff): The Borrower, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, Sisterhood Everlasting, We the Animals, The Grief of Others, Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life, Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love, Someday This Will Be Funny
| Author | Rebecca Makkai |
| ISBN | 0670022810 |
Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate...
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
| Author | Ann Brashares |
| ISBN | 0385729367 |
With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer.
Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again.
Carmen: Falls under the...
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0143121006 |
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now...
| Author | Ann Brashares |
| ISBN | 0385521227 |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood...
| Author | Justin Torres |
| ISBN | 0547576722 |
An exquisite, blistering debut novel.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood — smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are...
| Author | Leah Hager Cohen |
| ISBN | 1594488053 |
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous...
| Author | Kyran Pittman |
| ISBN | 1594488002 |
Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.
In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids...
| Author | Priscilla Warner |
| ISBN | 1439181071 |
Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...
| Author | Andrea N. Richesin |
| ISBN | 0373892330 |
Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection.Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking...
| Author | Lynne Tillman |
| ISBN | 1935869000 |
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...
| Author | Robert Olen Butler |
| ISBN | 0802119875 |
A Small Hotel is a beautifully told story of love, loss, and redemption. Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, the novel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage.
The book begins on the day...
| Author | Helen Schulman |
| ISBN | 0062024388 |
When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately,...
| Author | Bonnie Jo Campbell |
| ISBN | 0393079899 |
Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.
After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her...
“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation
American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...
