The Man I Should Have Married
10 best books like The Man I Should Have Married (Pamela Redmond Satran): 84, Charing Cross Road, Twenty Boy Summer, Amsterdam, Talk Me Down, The Perfect Wife, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, In Her Shoes, Birthright, Skin Tight, The House Girl
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140143505 |
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
| Author | Sarah Ockler |
| ISBN | 0316051594 |
"Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it."
"Okay."
"Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?"
"Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?"
According to Anna’s best friend, Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0385494246 |
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer,...
| Author | Victoria Dahl |
| ISBN | 0373773560 |
Molly Jennings has one naughty little secret: her job as a bestselling erotic fiction author. Until her inspiration runs dry—thanks to a creepy ex—and it's time to skip town and move back to tiny Tumble Creek, Colorado.One look at former high school hunk chief of police Ben Lawson and Molly is back...
| Author | J.P. Delaney |
| ISBN | 1524796743 |
The perfect life. The perfect love.
Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley's most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that...
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1501161172 |
In this “little gem” (
Washington Independent Review of Books),
Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.
As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog,...
| Author | Jennifer Weiner |
| ISBN | 0743495667 |
Rose Feller is thirty; a successful lawyer with high hopes of a relationship with Jim, Mr Not-Quite-Right, a senior partner in her firm. The last thing she needs is her messed-up, only occasionally employed sister Maggie moving in: drinking, smoking, stealing her money - and her shoes - and spoiling...
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0515137111 |
When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and romance.
While overseeing the dig, she must try to make sense of a cloud...
| Author | Carl Hiaasen |
| ISBN | 0446695696 |
New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot"
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased...
| Author | Tara Conklin |
| ISBN | 0062207393 |
A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York
Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave...
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
Georgie and Darcy are finally on their honeymoon in Kenya's Happy Valley, but murder crashes the party in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series.
Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It...
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0553290789 |
A book to die for...
Eve Benedict is the last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. There is no secret, no scandal she doesn't know. Now Eve has decided to write her memoirs--no holds barred. All Hollywood begs her...
| Author | Bryan Reardon |
| ISBN | 1524743658 |
From New York Times bestselling author Bryan Reardon comes a tense, twisting story about two brothers locked together in a dangerous game--and an unforgettable tale of a family's dark secrets.
Liam Brennan teeters on the edge. Early one morning, he snaps, kidnapping a young woman who works...
| Author | Mary Miller |
| ISBN | 1631492160 |
Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take.
Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last...
| Author | Tom Perrotta |
| ISBN | 0307356361 |
Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It's got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives, where no opportunity for enrichment goes unexplored.
Ruth Ramsey is the human...
A layered and thrilling suspense novel that grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.
When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big...
| Author | Marian Keyes |
| ISBN | 0060086246 |
Ever since legwarmers were cool, best friends Tara, Katherine, and Fintan have survived small-town ennui, big-city heartbreak, and endless giddy nights out on the town. But now that they've graduated to their slightly more serious thirties, only Fintan has what can honestly be called a "love life."...
Sixteen years ago Richard and I, with our then dog, 14 year old Holly in a trailer attached to Richard's bike, cycled down through western France via the canal paths, arriving in Antibes in July. With the exception of two fleeting visits back to the UK we have lived in France ever since.
For the...
| Author | Alison Gaylin |
| ISBN | 0451217225 |
Samantha Leiffer is back and in trouble again in the spine-tingling follow-up to the brilliant Hide Your Eyes
After Samantha Leiffer witnessed a murder (and was nearly killed herself for doing so), life has never quite been the same. Everyone else seems just to think it's taking her a while...
| Author | Jude Deveraux |
| ISBN | 0671744577 |
Carrie Montgomery had grown up with seven adoring older brothers, and she was used to getting her way rather easily. Joshua Greene was only looking for a hardworking, practical mail-order bride to help with the farm and feed and clothe his children. Yet from the moment Carrie saw his photograph, saw...
And the Dark Sacred Night
| Author | Julia Glass |
| ISBN | 0307377938 |
Kit Noonan’s life is stalled: unemployed, twins to help support, a mortgage to pay—and a frustrated wife, who is certain that more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father’s identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont...
‘A beautiful book, a perfect read for when you need a little bit of sunshine to help you through your day.’ – Book Worm Mummy on Rosie’s Little Café on the Riviera
Life is about to change forever…
When best friends, Tina and Jodie, make a drunken New Year’s Eve vow to change their...
| Author | Melissa de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 1524743771 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza comes a return to adult fiction, centered around a mysterious woman's birthday celebration—and what it reveals about her past.
Ellie de Florent-Stinson is celebrating her fortieth birthday with a grand celebration in her...
La valse lente des tortues
| Author | Katherine Pancol |
| ISBN | 2226182314 |
Un baiser brûlant du seul qu'on ne doit pas embrasser. Deux bras qui enlacent ou qui tuent. Un homme inquiétant, mais si charmant. Une femme qui tremble et espère ardemment... Un homme qui ment si savamment. Une femme qui croit mener la danse, mais passe son tour. Des adolescents plus avertis que les...
Coming Home to Island House
From Erica James, bestselling author of Summer at the Lake, comes an enchanting tale of one family coming together and finding their way.
It's the summer of 1939, and after touring an unsettled Europe to promote her latest book, Romily Temple returns home to Island House and the love of her life,...
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 1250011639 |
I think I might be done with the Molly Murphy series. This series has not aged well, and this book was only slightly better than Bowen's previous offering of "Hush Now Don't You Cry."
The plot was good, the villain convincing, but the main characters were not enjoyable. Daniel has lost any charm he...
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 1250052025 |
Molly Murphy Sullivan’s husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He’s chasing a murderer whose victims have nothing in common—nothing except for the taunting notes that are delivered to Daniel after each murder. And when Daniel receives a note immediately after...
Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers
| Author | Conor Bowman |
| ISBN | 1473641837 |
Sometimes it can be hard to find a new beginning in the middle of so many endings...
Hughie Mittman is in search of forgiveness.
He has just lost his mother and believes it is all his fault.
And, with his father more distant than ever, how can Hughie make things right?
As...
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
| Author | Rajeev Balasubramanyam |
| ISBN | 1784742546 |
Professor Chandra is an expert at complex problems. There's just one he can't crack: the secret of happiness.
In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes, but his life’s work.
He’s just narrowly missed out on the Nobel...
City of Darkness and Light
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 1250011663 |
Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she...
