7 Best fiction books like Let Me Count the Ways by Peter De Vries

Let Me Count the Ways

By: Peter De Vries

3.98

Format: None pages, None

The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about th…

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1. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

By: Malcolm Gladwell

3.85

Format: 444 pages, Hardcover

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard … read more

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"Self consciousness is the enemy of interestingness"

-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

"hey hey its Brooke im 12 and having trouble my teacher told me to get on here sooo yaaa see ya soon pic uplaodin soon!!!!!!!!!!!!"

-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

"But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)"

-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

"The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sente…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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2. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)

By: Paul O. Zelinsky , Beverly Cleary

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Beverly Cleary's timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecu… read more

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3. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

By: Jean Shepherd

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly design… read more

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Cover of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann

4. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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5. La tabla de Flandes

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

3.79

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

A finales del siglo XV un viejo maestro de la pintura flamenca introduce en uno de sus cuadros una … read more

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"Besides, life is a succession of events that link up with each other whether one wants them to or not."

-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

"You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations."

-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

"There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them."

-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

"It's odd how, against all logic, one clings to life in inverse proportion to the quantity of life one has left to look forward to."

-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

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6. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Cover of Night Owl (Trasker #1) by Andrew Mayne

7. Night Owl (Trasker #1)

By: Andrew Mayne

4.17

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by… read more

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8. Swan Light

By: Phoebe Rowe

4.21

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two … read more

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"There were as many parts of a story as there were people who remembered it."

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

"It was the story of the wrecks that hadn't happened, of the lives people got to keep living because of a light in the darkness ..."

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

"But shipwrecks were rarely like that, she’d learned later, proud and upright, perched whimsically on the seafloor. Wrecks were wrecked, sure and violent. Shattered and flattened, rotting edges under …"

-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

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9. Mindful of Murder

By: Susan Juby

3.64

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Helen Thorpe. She’s smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butle… read more

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10. Let Me Count the Ways

By: Peter De Vries

3.98

Format: None pages, None

The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about th… read more

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Dean Koontz

3.89

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