Online Dating Sucks…but it’s how I fell in love
John P. Gavin
ALSO WROTE:
n/a
SORTA LIKE:
He’s Just Not That Into You meets You’ve Got Mail
FIRST LINE:
“It’s May 2001, and I’m sitting out back.”
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Dead Ever After
Charlaine Harris
352 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
The other Sookie Stackhouse books
SORTA LIKE:
The other Sookie Stackhouse books
FIRST LINE:
“The New Orleans businessman, whose gray hair put him in his fifties, was accompanied by his much younger and taller bodyguard/chauffeur on the night he met the devil in the French quarter.”
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Waiting to Be Heard
Amanda Knox (with probably some help)
ALSO WROTE:
n/a
SORTA LIKE:
Other Knox trial books
FIRST LINE:
“I walked into the ancient Perugian courtroom, where centuries of verdicts had been handed down, praying that a tradition of justice would give me protection now.”
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The Big Girls
Susanna Moore
224 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
In the Cut, The Life of Objects
SORTA LIKE:
Jennifer Egan meets Lionel Shriver, minus 75% of the quality
FIRST LINE:
“Sloatsburg Correctional Institution, a walled complex of seven large stone buildings, sits on the west bank of the Hudson River.”
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The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling
ALSO WROTE:
Harry Potter duhhhh
SORTA LIKE:
The Northern Clemency meets The Corrections
FIRST LINE:
“Barry Fairbrother did not want to go out to dinner.”
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Wallflower at the Orgy
Nora Ephron
187 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Heartburn
SORTA LIKE:
Time-traveling to 1970
FIRST LINE: “Some years ago, the man I am married to told me he had always had a mad desire to go to an orgy.”
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Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
Etgar Keret
188 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
The Nimrod Flipout, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God
SORTA LIKE:
Miranda July meets Jonathan Safran Foer
FIRST LINE:
“‘Tell me a story,’ the bearded man sitting on my living-room sofa commands.”
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
285 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
The Tipping Point, Blink
SORTA LIKE:
Proofiness
FIRST LINE:
“Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia.”
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The Sibling Effect
Jeffrey Kluger
299 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
Apollo 13, Splendid Solution
SORTA LIKE:
The Firstborn Advantage,
FIRST LINE:
“At the time, it seemed like a good idea to put my baby brother Bruce in the fuse box.”
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling
222 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
episodes of The Office, Matt & Ben
SORTA LIKE:
Bossypants meets Chelsea Handler
FIRST LINE:
“Thank you for buying this book.”
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You’re a Horrible Person, But I Like You
Various authors
216 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
n/a
SORTA LIKE:
Dear Abby meets I Like You
FIRST LINE:
“Dear David Cross: We’re thinking about publishing a book of advice.”
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The Liar’s Club
Mary Karr
320 pages (in paperback)
SORTA LIKE:
The Glass Castle
FIRST LINE:
“My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.”
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The Know-It-All
A.J. Jacobs
369 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis, The Year of Living Biblically
SORTA LIKE:
Nickel and Dimed meets Wikipedia
FIRST LINE:
“I know the name of Turkey’s leading avant-garde publication.”
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Dead Reckoning
Charlaine Harris
325 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas
SORTA LIKE:
Twilight meets Xena Warrior Princess
FIRST LINE:
“The attic had been kept locked until the day after my grandmother died.”
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Faithful Place
Tana French
400 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
In the Woods, The Likeness
SORTA LIKE:
The Keep meets Mystic River
FIRST LINE:
“In all your life, only a few moments matter.”
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Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin
358 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
n/a
SORTA LIKE:
Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea meets The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
FIRST LINE:
“Have you ever looked at the online photos of Britney’s peesh?”
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Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
Douglas Coupland
224 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
Hey Nostradamus!, Microserfs
SORTA LIKE:
…a biography of Marshall McLuhan
FIRST LINE:
“The year is 1980 and it is spring.”
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Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Arianna Huffington
242 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
Like 11 other books
SORTA LIKE:
Nickel and Dimed meets Fast Food Nation
FIRST LINE:
“Growing up, I remember walking to school in Athens past a statue of President Truman.”
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
247 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
Home and Housekeeping
SORTA LIKE:
Mere Christianity meets Jesus Land
FIRST LINE:
“I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I’m old, and you said, I don’t think you’re old.”
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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories
Edgar Keret
130 pages (in paperback)
ALSO WROTE:
The Nimrod Flipout, Missing Kissinger
SORTA LIKE:
No One Belongs Here More Than You meets Dogma
FIRST LINE:
“This is the story about a bus driver who would never open the door of the bus for people who were late.”
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Half Empty
David Rakoff
224 pages (hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Fraud
SORTA LIKE:
Dry meets A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
FIRST LINE:
“We were so happy. It was miserable.”
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Proofiness
Charles Seife
260 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
Zero, Decoding the Universe
SORTA LIKE:
Freakonomics meets A Short History of Nearly Everything
FIRST LINE:
” ‘In my opinion, the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with communists.’ ”
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The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
320 pages (in hardcover)
ALSO WROTE:
The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy
SORTA LIKE:
World War Z meets The Host
FIRST LINE:
“It took the world just sixty days to end.”
