Books like Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds eight people hostage in a Swedish apartment viewing, and every single one of them has a secret.
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A Man Called Ove
A curmudgeonly old widower whose only joy is enforcing neighbourhood rules is slowly redeemed by the immigrant family that moves in next door.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A thirty-year-old Glasgow office worker with a scarred face and a rigid routine begins to come out of herself after she and a scruffy IT guy help an old man who collapses in the street.
Nothing to See Here
Lillian, stuck in a dead-end life in Tennessee, is offered a job by her old friend Madison, now married to a senator: looking after his ten-year-old twins from his first marriage, who burst into flames when they get upset.
Lessons in Chemistry
A brilliant female chemist in the 1960s is barred from the lab and becomes a reluctant TV cooking show host who teaches science instead of recipes.
Deacon King Kong
An elderly church deacon in a 1969 Brooklyn housing project shoots a drug dealer in broad daylight, and the whole neighbourhood gets tangled in the fallout.
The Midnight Library
A woman who attempts suicide finds herself in a library between life and death, where every book shows a life she could have lived.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A fifteen-year-old English boy on the spectrum investigates the murder of a neighbour's poodle and writes the investigation as the novel, and the investigation takes him much further than the poodle.
The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, a genetics professor who lives by strict routines, designs a questionnaire to find the perfect wife, and then meets Rosie, who fails every criterion and needs his help to find her biological father.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
When her brilliant, agoraphobic mother, a once-celebrated architect, vanishes just before a family trip to Antarctica, fifteen-year-old Bee Branch assembles emails, memos and school notes to work out where she went.
Bel Canto
Terrorists seize a South American vice-presidential mansion during a party, and in the months of captivity, unexpected alliances and loves take root.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
Cannery Row
On a street of sardine canneries in Monterey, a marine biologist known as Doc, a band of good-natured bums led by Mack and the women of the local brothel share a block and a way of life, in Steinbeck's most affectionate book.