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If you enjoyed reading:
THE ATTACK by Yasmina Khadra,
you might also like these books.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Half of a Yellow Sun

Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Française

Richard Condon,
 The Manchurian Candidate

John Updike, Terrorist
 
Michael Ondaatje,
 In The Skin of A Lion
 
Kiran Desai, 
 The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel

Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games

 Claire Messud,
 The Emperor's Children

Orhan Pamuk, Snow

Khaled Hosseini,
 A Thousand Splendid Suns

 Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me

 A. B. Yehoshua,
A Woman in Jerusalem

Gabriel García Márquez,
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Geraldine Brooks, March: A Novel

Rory Stewart, The Places In Between

 Shan Sa,  Empress
List by randomhouse.com – 6/11/07

If you liked A Million Little Pieces, you may also like:

James Frey's latest book:

My Friend Leonard

Other "Toxic" Memoirs:

  • Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
  • Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
  • Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
  • Drugs Are Nice by Lisa Carver
  • Dry by Augusten Burroughs
  • Electroboy by Andy Behrman
  • Fat Girl by Judith Moore
  • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  • Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  • Goat by Brad Land
  • Life Inside by Mindy Lewis
  • Lucky by Alice Sebold
  • Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
  • Parched by Heather King
  • Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater
  • Sickened by Julie Gregory
  • Smashed by Koren Zailckas
  • Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
  • Wasted by Marya Hornbacher

If you like David Sedaris, 'Holiday on Ice', 'Dress your family in corduroy and denim' and 'Me talk pretty one day', you may want to try:

These Witty Essayists:
  • Augusten Burroughs
  • Susan Orlean
  • David Rakoff
  • Sarah Vowell
  • Dan Zevin

These Zany Fiction Writers:
  • Steve Almond
  • Aimee Bender
  • Alicia Erian
  • Jasper Fforde
  • Nick Hornby
  • Lorrie Moore
  • Stacey Richter
  • George Singleton
  • Jincy Willett

If you liked Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, you may also like:

Another book by Jonathan Safran Foer:


Everything is Illuminated

These novels:
  • Absent Friends by S.J. Rozan
  • Curious Incident of the Dog in the
  • Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
  • Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro
  • Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price
  • Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
  • Genius by Dave Eggers
  • Hedwig and Berti by Frieda Arkin
  • History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  • September Roses by Jeanette Winter
  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
  • Sweet & Crazy by Patty Dann
  • Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
  • Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder

If you liked Master and Commander, you may also like...

Other historical novels by Patrick O'Brian:

  • Blue at the Mizzen
  • Commodore
  • Far Side of the World
  • Fortune of War
  • H.M.S. Surprise
  • Hundred Days
  • Ionian Mission
  • Mauritius Command
  • Wine-Dark Sea
  • Yellow Admiral

These novels:
  • Battle by Patrick Rambaud
  • Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson Decision at Trafalgar by Richard Woodman
  • Devil to Pay by C. Northcote Parkinson Jester's Fortune by Dewey Lambdin
  • Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
  • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
  • Ramage by Dudley Pope
  • Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
  • Shred of Honour by Tom Connery

If you liked Little Children, you may also like:
Other books by Tom Perrotta:
  • Bad Haircut
  • Election
  • Joe College
  • Wishbones

These stories:
  • Actual Life by Abigail Thomas
  • Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
  • Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
  • How to be Good by Nick Hornby
  • Human Capital by Stephen Amidon
  • Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett
  • Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk
  • Maybe Baby by Tenaya Darlington
  • O My Darling by Amity Gaige
  • Position by Meg Wolitzer
  • Single Wife by Nina Solomon


If you liked Kite Runner, you may also like:
These novels and biographies:
  • Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
  • Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
  • Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
  • Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
  • House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
  • Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  • Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
  • Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
  • Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman
  • West of Kabul, East of New York by Mir Tamim Ansary

If you liked Mr. Paradise, you may also like:
Others by Elmore Leonard, notably:
  • City Primeval
  • Get Shorty
  • Out of Sight
  • Pagan Babies
  • Tishomingo Blues

Gritty crime noirs:
  • Angel in Black by Max Allan Collins
  • At End of Day by George Higgins
  • Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffrey Lindsay
  • Flinch by Robert Ferrigno
  • Gatekeeper by Archer Mayor
  • God Save the Mark by D. Westlake
  • Grand Theft by Timothy Watts
  • Grifters by Jim Thompson
  • Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke
  • Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
  • Mucho Mojo by Joe Lansdale
  • Poison Blonde by Loren Estleman
  • Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Lighter crime novels:
  • Cadillac Beach by Tim Dorsey
  • Killer Waves by Brendan Dubois
  • Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

If you liked My Sister's Keeper, you may also like:
Other books by Jodi Picoult:
  • Harvesting the Heart
  • Keeping Faith
  • Mercy
  • Pact
  • Perfect Match
  • Picture Perfect
  • Plain Truth
  • Salem Falls
  • Second Glance
  • Songs of the Humpback Whale

Stories of sisters and struggles:
  • At Risk by Alice Hoffman
  • Double Stitch by John Rolfe Gardiner
  • Family History by Dani Shapiro
  • In the Middle of All This by Fred Leebron
  • Lazarus Child by Robert Mawson
  • Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
  • Third Child by Marge Piercy
  • What Girls Learn by Karin Cook
This nonfiction book:
  • His Brother's Keeper by Jonathan Weiner

If you liked Prodigal Summer, you may also like...
Other Books by Barbara Kingsolver:
  • Animal Dreams
  • Bean Trees
  • High Tide in Tucson
  • Pigs in Heaven
  • Poisonwood Bible
  • Small Wonder
Nature-Imbibed Tales:
  • All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  • Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
  • Close Range by Annie Proulx
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  • Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
  • Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
  • In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass
  • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
  • Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
  • Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian
Stories of Women in Rural America:
  • Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  • Gracious Plenty by Sherri Reynolds
  • Keepsakes for the Heart by Amelia Townsend
  • Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Laskas
  • Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  • Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  • Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

If you liked Life of Pi, you may also like...

  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
  • Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
  • Conversations with the Moon by Amy Neftzger
  • Curve of the World by Marcus Stevens
  • Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing
  • Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • Open Boat by Stephen Crane
  • Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
  • Shadow Catcher by Andrzej Szczypiorski
  • Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
  • Whale Rider by Witi Tame Ihimaera
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • Zoo Where You're Fed to God by Michael Ventura

Da Vinci Code
If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you may also like other Thrillers by Dan Brown:
  • Angels and Demons
  • Deception Point
  • Digital Fortress
Mysteries for the Intellectual:
  • Art History Mystery Series by Iaian Pears
  • Assassin by Thomas Gifford
  • Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  • Confessor by Daniel Silva
  • Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
  • Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
  • Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Genesis Code by John Case
  • Instance of the Fingerpost by Iaian Pears
  • Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Nonfiction Explorations:
  • Breaking the Da Vinci Code by Darrell Bock
  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent
  • Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent

Girl with a Pearl Earring
If you liked Girl with a Pearl Earring, you may also like other Books by Tracy Chevalier
  • Falling Angels
  • Lady and the Unicorn
  • Virgin Blue
Art- and History-Inspired Novels:
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker
  • I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto
  • Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
  • Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
  • Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction by Robert Begiebing
  • Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
  • Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
  • Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
These Nonfiction Books:
  • Jan Vermeer by Erik Larsen
  • Johannes Vermeer by P.T.A. Swillens
  • Lives of the Muses by Francine Prose

Lovely Bones
If you liked The Lovely Bones, you may also like...

  • Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
  • Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
  • Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
  • Crackpots by Sara Pritchard
  • Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
  • Liar's Club by Mary Karr
  • Little Friend by Donna Tartt
  • Lucky by Alice Sebold
  • Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  • Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger


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