20 books worth reading because of one title

Sometimes the titles of the works are so good that you want to start reading the book without knowing anything about the content or the author. But is there always an interesting plot and bright characters behind a cool headline?

Website I have prepared a selection of books with catchy titles and no less intriguing content that will not disappoint even the sophisticated reader.



Ray Bradbury, Let's All Kill Constance Famous film actress Constance Rattigan receives an unpleasant package: a notebook with the phones of the long-dead. There is something to be afraid of, because the names of the few survivors are marked with a greasy cross, including the name of Constance herself.

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Kurt Vonnegut, Cradle for a Cat The plot of the book is built around the most dangerous invention of Dr. Felix Honikker - a substance called "ice-nine". Its tiny crystalline, once in any reservoir, can cause the death of all life on Earth.

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Mary Ann Schaeffer and Annie Barrows, The Potato Peel Book and Pie Club In post-war London, writer Juliet tries to find a plot for a new book. A case comes to the rescue in the form of a letter from a pig farmer from the island of Guernsey, who got his hands on a book that once belonged to Juliet.

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Joanne Harris “Five Quarters of an Orange” The novel “Five Quarters of an Orange” is a rich and thin dessert wine. Using culinary metaphors, bizarre characters, and supernatural occurrences, Harris creates a complex and beautiful story.

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Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Shining Suns In the center of the novel are two women who are victims of the upheavals that destroyed idyllic Afghanistan. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman who learned from childhood what misfortune is. Layla is a favorite daughter in a friendly family.

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Luis Sepulveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Novels To distance yourself from everyone to be yourself, or to be with everyone and lose yourself? Antonio Jose Bolivar, a sage who did not get along with his fellow tribesmen and finds solace in reading love novels, chose the first of these two options that fate offered him.

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The news of the death of his father finds Jud Foxman in a difficult moment: he lost his job and is experiencing the betrayal of his wife. Now he faces another challenge - to spend a week of mourning under the same roof with his loving Jewish family.

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Laura Sandi “Tucci malt cookies make the world a much better place” Leda Rothko is an unusual girl. She remembers the moment of her birth, but does not know what a TV is, lives in a rich family, but always alone. She finds her first love on the phone.

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Fred Vargas, “Get Out Quickly and Don’t Hurry Back” On the doors of apartments of peaceful Parisians appear strange upside-down fours, and at a busy intersection in the center of the city some person reads to the public incomprehensible ads. It seems to everyone that these are harmless pranks, until a corpse is found in one of the houses with fours.

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Laura Esquivel, Chocolate on Cool Boiling Water They love each other, but for a number of reasons can not be together. The book is full of serious passions, seasoned with sharp humor and numerous recipes for dishes that the main character prepares.

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Alan Marshall, I Can Jump Over Puddles An ordinary Australian schoolboy, accustomed to jumping and running, dreaming of becoming a great rider, like his father, suddenly finds himself chained to a hospital bed, and then to crutches.

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Sarah Gio "Blackberry Winter" Seattle, 1933 Single mother Vera Ray kisses her young son before bed and goes to a local hotel for night work. In the morning, she discovers that the city is drowning in snow and her son has disappeared.

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Robert Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Care In this work, everything is unusual – from the name of the main character, who immediately refers the reader to the literary and philosophical predecessors of the author, to the fundamental topic: how to combine rationalistic reality with creative principle?

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Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Beach: I noticed that there was something black on the chest of the white shirt, shaped like a large butterfly with open wings... In the shimmering light of the fluorescent lamp, it became clear: this is a dark red blood spot. The blood is fresh, not yet withered.”

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Yunas Yunasson, One Hundred Years and a Suitcase of Money At the nursing home arrives for a solemn dinner on the occasion of the centenary of Mr. Carlson, the local boss, but does not like the hype of the anniversary climbs out the window and disappears. In the first hour of freedom, he manages to rob a racketeer bandit, and now the old man is chased by the police and bandits.

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Alan Bradley, Sweetness on the Crust of a Pie In the English estate live the eccentric Colonel de Luce and his three daughters. In the summer of 1950, a stranger is murdered and the colonel is arrested. While the elders sob, the youngest, eleven-year-old Flavia, tries to figure out this conundrum.

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Khaled Hosseini's The Wind Runner is set in pre-war Kabul in the 1970s, where two weather boys, Amir and Hassan, live. One belonged to the local aristocracy, the other to a despised minority. Soon Kabul idyll will be replaced by terrible storms.

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Martin Page, How I Became an Idiot This “journey into stupidity” raises problems common to young intellectuals who cannot fit into the “right” life.

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Per Valleu, Mai Cheval, "Police, Police, Mashed Potatoes!" In the novel, Martin Beck and his colleagues will have to investigate the daring murder of a financial tycoon who traded arms and real estate around the world. The crime was committed during the banquet.

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Stephen Fry "The Tennis Balls of Heaven" Ned Maddstone is a spoiler of fate. He is handsome, intelligent, rich and even noble. He has a loving father and a beloved girlfriend. But he has enemies. And one day, an evil school joke turns Ned’s life around, robs him of everything: freedom, love, father, fortune. From now on, instead of all this, he has madness and a fierce desire for revenge.

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