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10 best books like The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words (Susan P. Halpern): If Morning Ever Comes, Elective Affinities, The End of Your Life Book Club, The Porpoise, Amerika, The Complete Stories, Year of the Monkey, Books for Living, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Amateur Marriage

If Morning Ever Comes
AuthorAnne Tyler
ISBN0449911780
Wow. Anne Tyler's First Book, Published When She Was 22, Is Pretty Great!


The Harper Lee "Mocking Bird" (sic) reference makes absolutely no sense. But I think the illustration is based on what Tyler looked like in 1964.

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This is Anne Tyler’s very first novel, written...
Elective Affinities
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0192837761
Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters...
The End of Your Life Book Club
AuthorWill Schwalbe
ISBN0307594033
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.

Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon...
The Porpoise
AuthorMark Haddon
ISBN1784742821
‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.

A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.

She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective...
Amerika
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN0805210644
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind...
The Complete Stories
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN0805210555
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
Books for Living
AuthorWill Schwalbe
ISBN0385353545
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives.

"I've always believed that everything...
The Seven Dials Mystery
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007122594
Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono....
The Amateur Marriage
AuthorAnne Tyler
ISBN0345472454
Anne Tyler would laugh, I'm sure, if she read these different reactions to this book. For isn't this her point in so many of her novels? How different we all are and how easily we misunderstand each other? How one person can hate what another loves so passionately? How easy it is to miss the point, get the...
The Beginner's Goodbye
AuthorAnne Tyler
ISBN0307957276
Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
 
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent...
In the Penal Colony
AuthorFranz Kafka
Kafka’nın Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın karanlık günlerinde yazdığı Ceza Kolonisinde isimli öyküde, bilinmeyen bir adadaki koloniyi ziyarete giden bir gezgin, orada tüyler ürpertici bir sistemle karşılaşır. Kişinin suçlu olup olmadığına bakılmaksızın, ona...
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
AuthorPaul Bloom
ISBN0062339338
New York Post Best Book of 2016

We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it.

Nothing...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
AuthorMary Norris
ISBN1324001275
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.

In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
A Hunger Artist
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN8090217117
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist (1924) explores many of the themes that were close to him: spiritual poverty, asceticism, futility, and the alienation of the modern artist.

He edited the manuscript just before his death, and these four stories are some of...
Say You're Sorry
AuthorMichael Robotham
ISBN0316221244
TWO MISSING GIRLS. TWO BRUTAL MURDERS. ALL CONNECTED TO ONE FARM HOUSE. WHO IS TO BLAME?

When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found.

Three years later, during the...
Back When We Were Grownups
AuthorAnne Tyler
ISBN0345477243
I can see how some would think this book doesnt live up to its potential- but i think thats the whole point and they are missing the point,as well as Anne Tyler's genius. Anne Tyler purposefully captures the lives of people who seemingly may not live up to their potential- alot of her themes are based on how...
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
AuthorDan Barker
ISBN1569756775
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODLESS

“Valuable in the human story are the reflections of intelligent and ethical people who listen to the voice of reason and who allow it to vanquish bigotry and superstition. This book is a classic example.”
—CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS author of God is Not Great

“The...
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
AuthorMaggie Callanan
ISBN0553378767
Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty...
I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment
AuthorXavier Francisco Amador
ISBN0967718929
About 50% of all people with schizophrenia and manic-depression do not understand that they are ill and refuse treatment. Whether you are a family member or a therapist, in this book you will find hope in what the new research is revealing about the problem of poor insight into illness. Prepare to be surprised...
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
AuthorWalter Mischel
ISBN0316230871
Psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.

A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later...
Recent Changes in the Vernacular: poems
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN1893003175
Poetry. Tony Hoagland's work grapples with the distortions of contemporary America and what it takes to remain human in these strange times. His wry, penetrating poems admired by Boomers and Millennials alike, restlessly seek to awaken us from our dream. Full of warm hearted cynicism, wild humor,...
Secrets Plain and Simple
AuthorElizabeth Ludwig
Life has never been fuller for Cheryl Miller. Since baby Rebecca joined the family, it seems there are fewer hours in a day and more things to do than ever before. But when Cheryl’s youngest sister-in-law, Esther, is caught with drugs, Cheryl knows she must make the time to help. Esther insists the drugs...
New Poets of Native Nations
AuthorHeid E. Erdrich
ISBN1555978096
An anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century

New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected...
Quilt By Association
AuthorNancy Mehl
Anton Birken has returned to Sugarcreek to attend his mother’s funeral. He was shunned a decade ago after the suspicious disappearance of a teenage Amish girl he liked. While the girl’s parents, and the community, suspected Anton of foul play, the police lacked evidence to arrest him. When Levi...
Noah's Compass
AuthorAnne Tyler
ISBN0307272400
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.

Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never...
The Tin Can Tree
AuthorAnne Tyler
ISBN0449911896
In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is ten-year-old...
Tumbling Toward the End
AuthorDavid Budbill
ISBN1556595069
"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort." —Wendell Berry
"David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage." —Dana Jennings, The New York Times

"Looking at the reality closely, he sees parts move in a unison—sometimes graceless, sometimes ugly,...
Homespun Suspicions
AuthorOlivia Newport
“Make an effort.” These three seemingly innocuous words send Cheryl Miller on her most challenging assignment yet. When Aunt Mitzi handpicks a new tenant for her cottage, she asks Cheryl to “make an effort” to befriend her. But Jayla Nuttall makes it plain she doesn’t welcome any overtures...
I Regret Nothing
AuthorJen Lancaster
ISBN0451471075
New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all—sometimes with disastrous results…

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