A Hologram for the King

10 best books like A Hologram for the King (Dave Eggers): The Yellow Birds, Nice Big American Baby, Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing, Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology, Jacob's Folly, Holy Bible: Inspired By The Bible Experience: New Testament, The Living End, A Bad Man, The Lost Cyclist, Morning Haiku

The Yellow Birds

Author	Kevin Powers
ISBN	0316219363

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship...

Nice Big American Baby

Author	Judy Budnitz
ISBN	0375726861

A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world–and imagination–knows no boundaries. “I don’t know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,” said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, “but I’m happy to have her. Tremendous...

Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing

Author	Da Chen
ISBN	0060958723

In this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Colors of the Mountain" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly challenges, including poor living conditions, lack...

Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology

Author

David Young

A treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme. A poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading.


Magical Realist Fiction includes:


The nose by Nikolai Gogol
The...

Jacob's Folly

Author	Rebecca Miller
ISBN	0374178542

A luminous novel-funny and moving in equal measure-that shines with the author's unique talents

Jacob's Folly is a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, acting-and reincarnation.

In eighteenth-century...

Holy Bible: Inspired By The Bible Experience: New Testament

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0310926319

Always have to give the Bible five stars--it really is an amazing book. As for this translation, I really enjoyed it. The TNIV has the feel and readability of the NIV, although the wordings more frequently diverge from traditional phrasing to fresh renditions. One of the most notable changes is the use...

The Living End

Author	Stanley Elkin
ISBN	1564783421

A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beings--until he is killed during a senseless liquor-store hold-up. Suddenly smote by a deity as indifferent as history, Ellerbee is off on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly...

A Bad Man

Author	Stanley Elkin
ISBN	1564783324

Vendibility

In that mysterious place between the conscious and unconscious, that murky reality after sleep but before waking, that long lonely road... well, from the Lower East Side of Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge to Williamsburg, there writes Stanley Elkin. A Bad Man is Elkin at...

The Lost Cyclist

Author	David V. Herlihy
ISBN	0547195575

In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally got his chance by recasting himself as a champion of the downsized “safety-bicycle†with inflatable tires, the forerunner of the modern...

Morning Haiku

Author	Sonia Sanchez
ISBN	0807069108

This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds...