Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury - Similar Books

Page of 5	1 2 3 4 5

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Average rating: (read by 235 members)

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City....

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Average rating: (read by 63 members)

The novel that inspired the hit Broadway musical. 16 page colour insert from the musical When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become...

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Average rating: (read by 85 members)

Dolores Price is the wry and overweight, sensitive and pained, cynical heroine of this novel. The story follows her from four to 40, from her shattered family life through the hellish circles of sexual and food abuse to her gradual recovery and her fight to love again.

Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For? by Rick Warren

Average rating: (read by 7 members)

Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America's largest and best-known churches, shows you how to lead a Purpose-Driven Life. This Miniature Edition will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you--both here and now, and for eternity.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Average rating: (read by 227 members)

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits - the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth - a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Steven L. Hopp, Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingslover

Average rating: (read by 37 members)

Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is part memoir, part...

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Average rating: (read by 138 members)

This book contains two wonderful stories about members of the Glass family by the author of "The Catcher in the Rye". The first story takes place in downtown New Haven during the weekend of 'the Yale game' and follows Franny Glass on a date with her collegiate boyfriend. The second focuses on Zooey Glass, a...

A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian D. Mclaren

Average rating: (read by 4 members)

This is a leadership network publication. A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity - where...

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

Average rating: (read by 15 members)

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you'll find. He introduces us...

The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

Average rating: (read by 8 members)

This is the story of Vladimir Girshkin-part P.T. Barnum, part V.I. Lenin, the man who would conquer half of Europe (albeit the wrong half).

Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll

Average rating: (read by 3 members)

Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams-and whose dreams control her life. In her first dream, she found the perfect man-and the same thing promptly happened in life. Now, she has begun to dream dreams set in Rondua, a fantasy world of high adventure, full of tests of her courage and strength....

The African Queen by C. S. Forester

Average rating: (read by 6 members)

The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat - not the kind of boat anyone would take down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a crazy plan. She and Charlie set...

A Song of Stone by Iain Banks

Average rating: (read by 25 members)

The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam a lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep....

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Average rating: (read by 112 members)

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in...

A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell

Average rating: (read by 6 members)

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression...

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Average rating: (read by 48 members)

Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheriter of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Average rating: (read by 272 members)

Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their...

Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

Average rating: (read by 3 members)

Otto Ringling is a straightlaced publishing executive with two kids, a lovely wife, a fine home in a fancy New York suburb, and a nagging suspicion that something's missing. How, then, does he end up traveling through Middle America with a berobed Mongolian monk? Ah. The real question to ask is, Why? When his...

It by Stephen King

Average rating: (read by 353 members)

It is the children who see - and feel - what makes the town so horribly different. In the storm drains and sewers "It" lurks, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. As the children grow up and move away, the horror of "It" is buried deep - until they are called back.

J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, Harold Bloom

Average rating: (read by 21 members)

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

Similar Books