You & Me

8 best books like You & Me (Padgett Powell): The Charterhouse of Parma, Akin, The Long Call, The Crossing Places, The Collector’s Apprentice, An Ice-Cream War, The Wise Virgins, A Long Way From Home

AuthorStendhal
ISBN0679783180
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of European...
Akin
AuthorEmma Donoghue
ISBN0316491993
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
The Long Call
AuthorAnn Cleeves
ISBN1250204445
For the first time in 20 years, Ann Cleeves—international bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—embarks on a gripping new series.
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside...
The Crossing Places
AuthorElly Griffiths
ISBN0547229895
Forensic archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties and lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly...
The Collector’s Apprentice
AuthorB.A. Shapiro
ISBN1616203587
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect...
AuthorWilliam Boyd
ISBN0375705023
An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the...
The Wise Virgins
AuthorLeonard Woolf
ISBN0300126530
A new edition of Leonard Woolf’s satirical second novel, which offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group​

The Wise Virgins (1914), Leonard Woolf’s second novel, was published two years after the author’s marriage...
A Long Way From Home
AuthorPeter Carey
ISBN0571338879
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.

A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's...
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