Himself

Author: Jess Kidd

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pin….Read More

9 Books Similar to Himself

A Little Life

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some… Continue Reading Posted in: Asian American Literature & Fiction, Dysfunctional Families, Family Saga Fiction, New York (State) New York

Night Film

On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath… Continue Reading Posted in: New York (State) New York, Suicide

Dark Destiny

They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light.... Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Gothic Romances, Love Stories, Vampire Romances

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and… Continue Reading Posted in: Abandoned Children, Booksellers & Bookselling, Bookstores, Self-Help & Psychology Humor

The Familiars

Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard… Continue Reading Posted in: Fantasy, Literary Fiction

Gilead

The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, American Literature, Children Of Clergy, Historical Literary Fiction, U.S. Historical Fiction

The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular… Continue Reading Posted in: Child Development, Family Life Fiction, Father Figures, Fiction, Single Mothers

Leave a Reply