These Things Happen

6 best books like These Things Happen (Richard Kramer): The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out, Find Me, The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image, Sweet Like Sugar, Things I Learned About My Dad in Therapy

The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

Author

William Dameron

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out.

Do you know me?, the email began, sparking tremors of fear that turned into a full quake of panic when William Dameron discovered that his selfie had been stolen by strangers. On social networks and dating sites,...

Find Me

Author	André Aciman
ISBN	0374155011

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature...

The Department of Sensitive Crimes

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1524748218

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...

Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image

Author	Joshua Zeitz
ISBN	0670025666

A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidants

Lincoln’s official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president’s...

Sweet Like Sugar

Author

Wayne Hoffman

With eloquence and wit, Wayne Hoffman explores the unlikely camaraderie between a young Jewish man and an Orthodox rabbi, in this rich, insightful novel about love, honesty, faith, and belonging.In Yiddish, there is a word for it: bashert—the person you are fated to meet. Twentysomething Benji...

Things I Learned About My Dad in Therapy

Author	Heather B. Armstrong
ISBN	0758216599

Some of these essays literally forced me to turn off my book player because I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear the text. Not all of them were that funny, but one or two of them certainly were. Sarah Brown's essay on admitting she simply loved her dad and got along extremely well with him was a nice change...