A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
10 best books like A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing (Reynolds Price): Bellman & Black, Perdido Street Station, On a Pale Horse, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, Winesburg, Ohio, Inland, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Celestial Navigation, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Everybody's Fool
Bellman & Black is a heart-thumpingly perfect ghost story, beautifully and irresistibly written, its ratcheting tension exquisitely calibrated line by line. Its hero is William Bellman, who, as a boy of 10, killed a shiny black rook with a catapult, and who grew up to be someone, his neighbours...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345459407 |
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0345338588 |
4.0 stars. Piers Anthony is a MIND-NUMBING ENIGMA to me. He is capable of writing extremely thought-provoking, imaginative stories that are both original and speak to fundamental aspects of the human condition. The mystery is that he does so infrequently, despite being one of the most...
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0330343475 |
I've read about neurologist Oliver Sacks in other books but I'm pretty sure this was my first experience reading one of his books and I actually really enjoyed it. Sacks writes up narratives for patients he works with or people he meets with neurological conditions in a way that makes it much easier to...
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0192839772 |
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0525559531 |
The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0449911802 |
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell...
| Author | Thornton Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060088877 |
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0307270645 |
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters from Nobody's Fool (1993).
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only...
River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
| Author | Helen Prejean |
| ISBN | 1400067308 |
In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
| Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN | 0385350597 |
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist this return to the classroom is his "one last...
| Author | Agustín Gómez Arcos |
| ISBN | 1551522306 |
The latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises...
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Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird...
| Author | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| ISBN | 0553214985 |
Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett’s first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical...
| Author | Reginald McKnight |
| ISBN | 0316560588 |
An African-American slacker, who's best friends are white hippies and whose black psychologist girlfriend feels that black people and white people can never understand each other, joins the peace corps and goes to Senegal. While there, he comes down with Malaria and has a psychedelic trip through...
A Short Time to Stay Here
| Author | Terry Roberts |
| ISBN | 1932158995 |
War changes everything that should have been in the summer of 1917. The U.S. enters WWI and Stephen Robbins' beloved Mountain Park Hotel is pressed into service as an internment camp for over 2,000 German nationals, including Hans Ruser and his men. Feisty Anna Ulmann, seeking her independence in a...
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
| Author | Debby Irving |
| ISBN | 0991331311 |
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about...
