Contemporary

The Book of Dave by Will Self

When East End cab driver Dave Rudman's wife steals his only son from him, Dave writes a compelling text that captures all of his frustrations and ...

Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson

The physicians urged Grace's parents to institutionalize her after stating that nothing more could be done. Grace, 11, meets Daniel on her first day ...

Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett

A battle of wills between a young banker named Doug Fanning and a retired teacher named Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have started to communicate ...

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Since the paper was started by an enigmatic millionaire fifty years ago, a lot has changed, and now, amidst the faded carpeting and drab office ...

The Still Point by Amy Sackville

Arctic explorer Edward Mackley embarks on a journey to the North Pole around the turn of the 20th century, but he disappears into the frozen tundra ...

The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly

Ellis is driven to learn more about his mother, whose passing casts a pall over the family's generally content life, as well as the spiders that lurk ...

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Hard news is delivered to Ree Dolly by the sheriff's officer at the front door. The Dolly family will lose their home if her father skips bail on ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

A timeless, profoundly transformative examination of war, nostalgia, the mind, and the healing power of narrative, with more than two million copies, ...

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx is an energetic, darkly humorous, and occasionally magical picture of the modern North American family. When his ...

Cheap Novelties by Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor's exceptional foresight as a brilliant cartoonist and a perceptive urban observer is early on display in Cheap Novelties. Julius Knipl, a ...

Instant Lives And More by Howard Moss

Two of the most satirical brains in the world present a timeless creative parody. Moss unearths fascinating historical anecdotes, which Gorey ...

Queer Street by James McCourt

Every page of Queer Street is infused with a ferocious critical intelligence. It uses jarring divagations in its words. A clever bard singing "the ...

Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.com.
Copyright © 2025 LikeNovels.Com – All rights reserved.

LikeNovels
Logo