A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots

7 best books like A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots (Katy Robinson): I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, The Namesake, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, Southern Lady Code, Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan, East of the Mountains, Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Piano Solo)

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

Author	Anne Bogel
ISBN	0801072921

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.

I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary...

The Namesake

Author	Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN	0618485228

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were...

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

Author	Machado de Assis
ISBN	0850515025

a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery

we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.

here are three reasons...

Southern Lady Code

Author	Helen Ellis
ISBN	0385543891

The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.

Helen Ellis has...

Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan

Author	Shigeru Mizuki
ISBN	1770461353

A fascinating period in Japanese history explored by a master of manga
"Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan" is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of...

East of the Mountains

Author	David Guterson
ISBN	1400032652

From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes this bestselling novel about a dying man’s final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges.

When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Piano Solo)

Author	Richard Harris
ISBN	0571520928

This collection brings together music played by Captain Corelli himself and original pieces evoking the sounds and events of the book and of 3 earlier novels, the Latin Trilogy', by Louis de Bernieres. Mandolin music by Beethoven and Hummel is idiomatically arranged for piano by Richard Harris and...