Browsing Books by Books Like The Things They Carried
- The Watchman (2008)
- Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear...
- The Forever War (2009)
- The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand, despite the fact that the fierce ali...
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1986)
- The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide cons...
- Common Sense (2011)
- First published in 1776, this pamphlet by British political radical Thomas Paine (1737 1809) outline...
- Brave New World (2006)
- Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of i...
- Never Let Me Go (2006)
- A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into thei...
- The Secret Life of Bees (2003)
- After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in...
- August Heat (2009)
- When a boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under his family's beach rental, Inspector...
- Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
- A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out a sexual revenge in fact and fa...
- The Catcher in the Rye (1991)
- Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, ...
- Steve Jobs (2011)
- Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, frie...
- The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
- Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until...
- The Night Circus (2011)
- Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and ...
- The Secret History (1993)
- Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusiv...
