Browsing Books by Books Like Straight Man

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited b...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008)
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, this is a moving tale of post-war friendship, love and book...

The Bormann Testament (2006)
Risking his very existence, Special Agent Paul Chavasse must find a manuscript written by Martin Bor...

The Sense of an Ending (2011)
Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented ...

Nightwoods (2011)
Named the guardian of her murdered sister's troubled twins, Luce struggles to build a family with th...

Cloud Atlas (2004)
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-cen...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)
A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic ga...

A Game of Thrones (1996)
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long...

Empire Falls (2002)
Miles Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successfu...

A Long Way Down (2005)
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last sto...

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul...

Defending Jacob (2012)
His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney ...

The Corrections (2002)
Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, En...

Undaunted Courage (2002)
A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships ...

Cryptonomicon (2002)
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephe...

Morality for Beautiful Girls (2002)
Precious Ramotswe investigates two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an ...