Ten books Tuesday: Short of time? Read something short.
Adult Summer Reading Club 9th December, 2013- 31st January, 2014
Ten Books...
Short novels of 200 pages or so. You may read them in one sitting or read them ten minutes at a time- these are short, (but not always sweet) novels for everyone and anyone who doesn't have much time to read!
Blood and circuses by Kerry Greenwood
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Readalike authors:
Agatha Christie
M.C. Beaton- Agatha Raisin mysteries
Janet Evanovich
Mary Daheim
Susan Wittig Albert
The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... Readalike books:
The coldest girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
River of stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
Authors:
Terry Pratchett
Raymond E. Feist
The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
- Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.Readalike books:The remains of the day by Kazuo IshiguroOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe sea by John BanvilleTelegraph Avenue: a novel by Michael Chabon
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
- Years after her son's crucifixion, Mary lives alone and in fear, trying to piece together the events that led to her son's brutal death.Readalike books:Toby's room by Pat BarkerWe need new names by NoViolet BulawayoHarvest by Jim CraceA Tale for the time being by Ruth OzekiThe Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall-Smith
The hard way by Carol Lea Benjamin
The murder at the vicarage by Agatha Christie
The spellman files by Lisa Lutz
The mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes
The Turning by Tim Winton
- A collection of stories set in western Australia includes the stories of brothers who shun one another, ex-lovers who reunite to remember their incompatibility, and a man who returns to the site of a frightening childhood event.Readalike books:Now showing by Ron ElliotThe secret lives of men by Georgia BlainTransactions by Ali AlizadehAuthors:
The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett
Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a
mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace
upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role
in the monarchy.
Readalike books:
Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a
mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace
upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role
in the monarchy.Readalike books:
White teeth by Zadie Smith
The unlikely pilgrimmage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Fool by Christopher Moore
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
The unlikely pilgrimmage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Fool by Christopher Moore
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
On Chesil Beach by Ian Mc Ewan
- On their wedding day, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women in love by D. H. Lawrence
The French Lieutenant's woman by John Fowles
North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell
The French Lieutenant's woman by John Fowles
North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell
This is how you lose her byJunot Diaz
- Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.Readalike books:If I loved you, I would tell you this by Robin BlackJesus out to sea by James Lee BurkeSweet land stories by E.L DoctorowDear life by Alice MunroThe imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The housekeeper and the professor by Yoko Ogawa]
- A relationship blossoms between a brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory problems following a traumatic head injury and the young housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him.
Readalike books:
The space between us by Anna McPartlin
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
The grass is singing by Doris Lessing
Ellis Island by Kate KerriganPaula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
