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10 best books like Against Infinity (Gregory Benford): The Amityville Horror, The World According to Garp, Cat's Cradle, The Most Of S.J.Perelman, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, The Laughing Policeman, The Man on the Balcony, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Big Trouble, The Wonderful O

The Amityville Horror
AuthorJay Anson
ISBN0553116606
28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits

In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home, the same home where Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers and sisters just one year earlier.

the psychic phenomena that followed created the most terrifying...
The World According to Garp
AuthorJohn Irving
ISBN0345915593
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet...
Cat's Cradle
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN0140285601
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For...
The Most Of S.J.Perelman
AuthorS.J. Perelman
ISBN0413455009
One of the wittiest writers of the twentieth century and a stylist without equal. The pieces reprinted from The Road to Miltown, especially the 'Cloudland Revisited' sequence, are perhaps the sharpest. Re-reading them, you marvel at their simplicity. The author sits down to watch a series of films...
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
AuthorChristopher Moore
ISBN0060842350
'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.

But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need...
The Laughing Policeman
AuthorMaj Sjöwall
ISBN0679742239
One of the things I dig most about the "Martin Beck" mysteries is that they are only named "Martin Beck" mysteries out of convenience. He's the highest ranking policeman in Sjowall and Wahloo's Stockholm Homicide Division, and a couple of the early books tended to focus on him, but as the series goes on...
The Man on the Balcony
AuthorMaj Sjöwall
ISBN0679745963
The chilling third novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders.In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stalking young girls and disposing their bodies....
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
AuthorMaj Sjöwall
ISBN0679745971
The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace.Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad...
Big Trouble
AuthorDave Barry
ISBN0425178102
In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt's intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front...
The Wonderful O
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0440405793
This book was one of my favorites when I was about eight, and I read it innumerable times. I can still remember many passages verbatim. In case you don't know it, here is a brief summary of the plot. Two disreputable pirates, Black and Littlejack, arrive at the island of Ooroo. They have reason to believe...
Dangerous Visions
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0743452615
The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger...
Miss Lonelyhearts
AuthorNathanael West
As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: "A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' as the conductor of the column is inevitably dubbed, begins with contempt of the correspondents...
Death of an Englishman
AuthorMagdalen Nabb
ISBN1569472548
It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio...
The Anything Box
AuthorZenna Henderson
ISBN0380017458
Don't open The Anything Box unless you're prepared for the unexpected.

The Grunder, a thing of horror which, if defeated, restores love...

The Noise-Eater, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything--or anyone--that makes a sound...

The Coveti,...
The Remaking
AuthorClay McLeod Chapman
ISBN1683691539
Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a tale as it evolves every twenty years—with terrifying results.

Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot’s Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter...
The Hammer of God
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN1857231945
"Entertaining. . .[Clark] handles both ideas and characters with deftness and wit; in short, the outstanding living science fiction writers is romping".-- "Chicago Sun-Times". In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer...
The Far Side of the Dollar
AuthorRoss Macdonald
ISBN0553129147

In this admirable example of the Lew Archie series, a wealthy high school boy's search for his personal history precipitates crimes in the present as it dredges up the sins of the past.

This book is filled with the hunger for fathers and fathering, and its tragedy is a consequence of fatherly...
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