The international bestselling romantic comedy “bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor,” (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based … orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”). But Don is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you.
Arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, Graeme Simsion’s distinctive debut “navigates the choppy waters of adult relationships, both romantic and platonic, with a fresh take (USA TODAY). “Filled with humor and plenty of heart, The Rosie Project is a delightful reminder that all of us, no matter how we’re wired, just want to fit in” (Chicago Tribune).
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This is such a fun, light-hearted read. There are some truly wonderful scenes in this book – the bartending scene is a favorite, as is almost every page in the last quarter of the book. I’d recommend it to anyone who’s up for a less than conventional romance!
If you ever wanted to know what Sheldon Cooper (of early Big Bang Theory, pre-Amy) would do if he wanted to find the perfect wife, this is the book for you.
Don Tillerman is a genetics professor in Australia who is socially awkward a la Sheldon Cooper. He’s tired of going on dates that are seemingly perfect, only to discover a flaw in his date …
I haven’t been this entertained by a book in years. I enjoyed every page and was so sad when it ended. Thank goodness there are two more! Definitely in the vein of the classic screwball comedy or chick-lit.
I adored this story. It’s told from a first-person POV (the narrator is Don, a high-functioning Asperger’s geneticist). Here’s the book blurb:
MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he …
The Rosie Project is a unique take on a romantic comedy that had me laughing throughout the story. The male protagonist, Don Tillman, sounds like Spock if he were looking for a wife on Earth instead of his Vulcan planet. To Don the world is alien to him, and he is constantly challenged with trying to understand how “normal” people would react in …
I can’t remember the last time I smiled the entire way through reading a book, until this one. Told in first person POV from the male lead, who may have a form of Asperger’s, it is sweet, fun, entertaining read from start to finish. Just being inside Don Tillman’s head was a pleasure and seeing his interactions with his friends only made me love …
Hilarious and heartwarming. Simsion did a phenomenal job making an unusual protagonist enormously sympathetic. I really enjoyed this and have read it more than once.
This book is so so cute & made me laugh a lot. Don Tillman is a treasure of a man. The ending was a little disappointing to me, I felt like it didn’t match the pacing of the rest of the book.
Simsion’s first foray into the world of fiction, The Rosie Project, is a fun, humorous, quick read that’s perfect for the beach.
Don Tillman, the novel’s protagonist, is a gifted professor who struggles with social cues and likely falls somewhere on the autism spectrum. He thinks about things very logically and literally, and, after several …
I listened to this on audio-book. The characters are quirky and the story line humorous. This book is a wonderful reminder to celebrate our differences.
I loved this book so much. I wish there would be more heartwarming and hilarious books like this. So good.
I read this book for my book club and it was one of my favorites. It’s a quick read and shows the how the character evolves and finds himself. Great book for book clubs, as it sparked some wonderful conversations.
I don’t read a lot of books that make me laugh – there is usually a lot of gasping, sometimes crying, but not a whole lot of laughing. It takes a lot for something I am reading to audibly make me laugh and this book managed to do so – a few times. PLUS … as a bonus, the story was one I wanted to know the outcome of and I loved the characters …
I first learned of this book while perusing Bill & Melinda Gates’ website. I figured if the book is good enough for Bill, then maybe it’s good enough for me, too. (Actually, it was Melinda Gates who first told her husband about this book; but I digress – if I can say use that phrase before my review has even begun.)
The main character, Don …
I don’t normally like books like this but this book was hilarious. Think Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory falls in love with Haley from Modern Family. Hilarity ensues.
A really interesting and funny book.
Absolutely loved this book. Fun reading
Really unexpectedly fun book about 2 odd-ducks who find each other, marry, and start a family while uprooting their lives from Australia to NYC. Sequel to the equally entertaining, Rosie Project. Don is both rational and thorough, yet hopelessly inept, but somehow he thoroughly charms the reader. Lovely story about human kindness.
What a delightful book! A genetics professor who has Asperger’s is on a mission to find the perfect wife. But his project is side tracked and his life turned upside down when he’s enlisted to help a young woman identify her father.
Laugh out loud moments. Being wife of and mother to Autists I recognised so much. The two sequels are both great too but this is my favourite as we meet Don and Rosie for the first time.