Books like 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.
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Where the Heart Is
Novalee Nation, seventeen and seven months pregnant, is left by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, and secretly makes the store her home.
Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds eight people hostage in a Swedish apartment viewing, and every single one of them has a secret.
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.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Over one day and night before Christmas Eve in Philadelphia, a foul-mouthed nine-year-old aspiring jazz singer, her lonely teacher and the owner of a failing jazz club all find their way to The Cat's Pajamas.
Still Life
In the summer of 1944, among the ruins of Tuscany, Ulysses Temper, a young British soldier, meets Evelyn Skinner, an English art historian in her sixties who has come to rescue paintings, and the meeting shapes the next forty years of his life.
Ellen Foster
Eleven-year-old Ellen tells how she got through her mother's death and her father's neglect in rural North Carolina, and how she went looking for a new family and took its name.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
A by-the-book caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth is sent to inspect a secret island orphanage whose children include the Antichrist, and starts to question the rules he has always followed.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.
The Husbands
Lauren comes home from a hen party to find a man in her flat who says he is her husband. When he goes up into the attic, a different husband comes down.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
A nine-year-old New York boy whose father died in the north tower finds a key in a vase in his dad's closet and walks, through every borough, trying to find the lock that matches it.
Tales of the City
Mary Ann Singleton, a secretary from Cleveland on holiday in San Francisco in 1976, decides to stay, and moves into 28 Barbary Lane, a boarding house run by Anna Madrigal, a landlady who tapes joints to her tenants' doors.