A Very Simple Crime

7 best books like A Very Simple Crime (Grant Jerkins): Say You're One of Them, Robopocalypse, The Red Book, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, 新参者 [Shinzanmono], L'extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

Say You're One of Them

Author	Uwem Akpan
ISBN	0316113786

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when...

Robopocalypse

Author	Daniel H. Wilson
ISBN	0385533853

In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network...

The Red Book

Author	Deborah Copaken Kogan
ISBN	1401340822

The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan’s wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion.  

Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled...

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Author	Randall Kenan
ISBN	0156505150

The book (a collection of short stories) centers on the residents of Tims Creek, NC, and has me looking at people in the grocery store differently. I mean, EVERYONE has some freakishly interesting story in their life--yes?--and that's the rock Kenan flips & roots around beneath. A minister eulogizes...

Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa

Author	Keith B. Richburg
ISBN	0156005832

The author reminds of me of that friend you have who you can always rely on for a blunt and honest opinion-the one who would have no problem telling you that your ass looked fat in those jeans-and would probably not give a damn if anyone opposed what she said.

So, while I'm not trying to equate opinions...

新参者 [Shinzanmono]

Author	Keigo Higashino
ISBN	4062157713

Newcomer is a translated Japanese murder mystery. It is the 8th in the series, but doesn’t matter if you start here as the main character, Sergeant Kyochiro Kaga, is new to the Tokyo police force. Kaga is assigned a murder case about a 45 year old divorced woman. His style is like that of Colombo - kind...

L'extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea

Author

Romain Puértolas

Le premier mot que prononça l'Indien Ajatashatru Lavash Patel en arrivant en France fut un mot suédois. Un comble !
Ikea.
Voilà ce qu'il prononça à mi-voix.
Cela dit, il referma la porte de la vieille Mercedes rouge et patienta, les mains posées comme un enfant sage sur ses genoux...