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Odd Families, Quirky Characters
Wry stories of the daily life involving families and people who are a little (or a lot!) off the beaten path (i.e. Anne Tyler)
Authors & Titles
- Antoni, Brian: South Beach
- Baker, Tiffany: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
- Barker, Nicola: Behindlings
- Barkley, Brad: Money, Love
- Barrows, Annie & Shaffer, Mary Ann: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Bausch, Richard: Thanksgiving Night
- Berne, Suzanne: A Crime in the Neighborhod
- Blackston, Ray: Flabbergasted
- Block, Francesca Lia: Quakeland
- Brookner, Anita: Brief Lives
- Brookner, Anita: A Closed Eye
- Brookner, Anita: Falling Slowly
- Brookner, Anita: Fraud
- Brookner, Anita: Incidents in the Rue Laugier
- Brookner, Anita: The Misalliance
- Brookner, Anita: A Private View
- Brookner, Anita: Undue Influence
- Brookner, Anita: Visitors
- Brown, Carrie: The Hatbox Baby
- Burcham, Carl: White Dolphin Blues
- Cameron, Peter: The City of Your Final Destination
- Campbell, Bonnie Jo: Q Road
- Carey, Edward: Observatory Mansions
- Cartwright, Justin: The Promise of Happiness
- Chabon, Michael: Wonder Boys
- Cheever, John: Wapshot series
- The Wapshot Chronicle
- The Wapshot Scandal
- Christensen, Lars Saabye: The Half Brother
- Cohen, Paula Marantz: Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan
- Connelly, Neil O'Boyle: Buddy Cooper Finds a Way
- Cook, Thomas H. & King, Larry: Moon Over Manhattan
- Cooper, Douglas: Amnesia
- Crandell, Doug: Beauty Knows No Pain series
- The Flawless Skin of Ugly People
- Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed
- Crusie, Jennifer: Faking It
- Darling, Julia: Crocodile Soup
- Davies, Robertson: Rebel Angels series
- The Rebel Angels
- What's Bred in the Bone
- The Lyre of Orpheus
- Dawson, Carol: Body of Knowledge
- Denby, Joolz: Borrowed Light
- Downes, Frank: The Long Snake Tattoo
- Drury, Joan M.: Those Jordan Girls
- DuFresne, John: Louisiana Power and Light
- Elkin, Stanley: Mrs. Ted Bliss
- Enright, Anne: The Wig My Father Wore
- Fields, Jennie: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Fisher, Carrie: Delusions of Grandma
- Fisher, Carrie: Surrender the Pink
- Fitzgerald, Penelope: At Freddie's
- Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Beginning of Spring
- Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Bookshop
- Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Gate of Angels
- Friend, Dorie: Family Laundry
- Garfield, Henry: Room 13
- Gilbert, Elizabeth: Stern Men
- Hagen, George: The Laments
- Hamilton, Jane: The Book of Ruth
- Handler, Daniel: Watch Your Mouth
- Heinemann, Larry: Cooler By the Lake
- Helnwein, Mercedes: The Potential Hazards of Hester Day
- Hite, Sid: Dither Farm
- Huneven, Michelle: Round Rock
- Irving, John: The 158-Pound Marriage
- Irving, John: The Cider House Rules
- Irving, John: The Fourth Hand
- Irving, John: The Hotel New Hampshire
- Irving, John: Last Night in Twisted River
- Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Irving, John: A Son of the CIrcus
- Irving, John: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
- Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
- Irving, John: The World According to Garp
- Jewell, Lisa: Roommates Wanted
- Kay, Terry: Taking Lottie Home
- Keyes, Marian: Watermelon
(NOTE: This title is part of the Walsh Sisters series, listed under Ties That Bind: Sisters)
- Kimmel, Haven: The Solace of Leaving Early
- Kimmel, Haven: The Used World
- King, Larry & Cook, Thomas H.: Moon Over Manhattan
- Kowalski, William: Eddie's Bastard
- Kraft, Eric: Peter Leroy series
- Little Follies
- Herb 'n' Lorna
- Reservations Recommended
- Where Do You Stop?
- What a Piece of Work I Am
- At Home With the Glynns
- Leaving Small's Hotel
- Inflating a Dog
- Passionate Spectator
- Taking Off (Flying Trilogy #1)
- On the Wing (Flying Trilogy #2)
- Flying Home (Flying Trilogy #3) (not available in a separate edition)
(omnibus volume) Flying (contains Taking Off, On the Wing, and Flying Home)
- Lavalle, Victor: The Ecstatic
- Lipman, Elinor: The Inn at Lake Devine
- Lipman, Elinor: Isabel's Bed
- Lively, Penelope: According to Mark
- Lively, Penelope: Cleopatra's Sister
- Lively, Penelope: Heat Wave
- Lively, Penelope: Moon Tiger
- Lively, Penelope: Next to Nature, Art
- Lively, Penelope: Passing On
- Lively, Penelope: The Road to Lichfield
- Lively, Penelope: Spiderweb
- Livesey, Margot: Banishing Verona
- Lynch, Sarah-Kate: Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
- Mandelbaum, Paul: Adriane on the Edge
- Mandelbaum, Paul: Garrett in Wedlock
- Martinez, Nina Marie: ¡Caramba!
- McCall-Smith, Alexander: 44 Scotland Street series
- 44 Scotland Street
- Espresso Tales
- Love Over Scotland
- The World According to Bertie
- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
- McCall-Smith, Alexander: Corduroy Mansions
- McCown, Clint: War Memorials
- Mendelsohn, Jane: I Was Amelia Earhart
- Meno, Joe: Tender as Hellfire
- Monahan, William: Light House
- Mosher, Howard Frank: The Fall of the Year
- Murdoch, Iris: The Green Knight
- Murdoch, Iris: Jackson's Dilemma
- Nissen, Thisbe: The Good People of New York
- Ozick, Cynthia: Heir to the Glimmering World
- Pearson, T.R.: True Cross
- Portis, Charles: Gringos
- Powell, Anthony: A Dance to the Music of Time series
- A Question of Upbringing
- A Buyer's Market
- The Acceptance World
(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement )
- At Lady Molly's
- Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- The Kindly Ones
(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement )
- The Valley of Bones
- The Soldier's Art
- The Military Philosophers
(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement )
- Books Do Furnish a Room
- Temporary Kings
- Hearing Secret Harmonies
(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement )
- Pritchard, Sara: Crackpots
- Proulx, E. Annie: The Shipping News
- Pym, Barbara: Crampton Hodnet
- Pym, Barbara: Quartet in Autumn
- Pym, Barbara: Some Tame Gazelle
- Reiken, Frederick: Rubin Family series
- The Odd Sea
- The Lost Legends of New Jersey
- Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping
- Rogan, Barbara: Café Nevo
- Rosenfeld, Arthur: A Cure for Gravity
- Schmidt, Heidi Jon: The Bride of Catastrophe
- Schweighardt, Joan: Homebodies
- See, Carolyn: The Handyman
- Shaffer, Mary Ann & Barrows, Annie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Shearn, Amy: How Far is the Ocean From Here
- Simpson, Mona: Anywhere But Here
- Simpson, Thomas William: This Way Madness Lies
- Smiley, Jane: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
- Smiley, Jane: Barn Blind
- Smiley, Jane: Duplicate Keys
- Smiley, Jane: The Greenlanders
- Smiley, Jane: Horse Heaven
- Smiley, Jane: Moo
- Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres
- Smith, Lee: Family Linen
- Stella, Leslie: The Easy Hour
- Stoner, Tom: Comfort of Our Kind
- Sucher, Dorothy: The Invisible Garden
- Toby-Potter, Ellen: The Average Human
- Trevanian: Hot Night in the City
- Tyler, Anne: The Accidental Tourist
- Tyler, Anne: The Amateur Marriage
- Tyler, Anne: Back When We Were Grownups
- Tyler, Anne: Breathing Lessons
- Tyler, Anne: Celestial Navigation
- Tyler, Anne: The Clock Winder
- Tyler, Anne: Digging to America
- Tyler, Anne: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Tyler, Anne: If Morning Ever Comes
- Tyler, Anne: Ladder of Years
- Tyler, Anne: Morgan's Passing
- Tyler, Anne: Noah's Compass
- Tyler, Anne: A Patchwork Planet
- Tyler, Anne: Saint Maybe
- Tyler, Anne: Searching for Caleb
- Tyler, Anne: A Slipping-Down Life
- Tyler, Anne: Tin Can Tree
- Virtue, Noel: Lady Jean
- Wagman, Diana: Spontneous
- Wagner, Bruce: I'll Let You Go
- Weller, Anthony: The Siege of Salt Cove
- Wells, Kellie: Skin
- Wilkins, Damien: Little Masters
- Wolfe, Thomas: The Good Child's River
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