A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

6 best books like A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel): London Fields, Wonder Boys, The Ice Queen, Here on Earth, The Singing Detective, Doll's Eyes

London Fields

Author	Martin Amis
ISBN	0099748614

Samson Young, first-person narrator of this Martin Amis novel, is a somewhat jaded, frequently sarcastic and acerbic 40-something intellectual literary writer from, not surprisingly, New York City. But his hard-edged Big Apple voice is absolutely pitch-perfect for the story he...

Wonder Boys

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	3423124172

Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books. If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for just a teensy...

The Ice Queen

Author	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	0316154385

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.

Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle...

Here on Earth

Author	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	0425169693

After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back...

The Singing Detective

Author	Dennis Potter
ISBN	0571145906

I remember when this was first shown on television – I remember the effect it had on me. That television could be like that! Here was something that proved television could be something more than mindless drivel. Of course, I was wrong – and The Singing Detective was just the exception that proves...

Doll's Eyes

Author	Bari Wood
ISBN	0380720973

Eve Klein was born wtih a "gift" she doesn't want. It drove her husband away and her mother to suicide. It forces her to see things...to know things.

In her mind, she can see the pain, the terror, the blood. and the eyes-- cold and merciless, alive...yet dead.

Destiny has brought her to...