An Age Like This: 1920-1940
8 best books like An Age Like This: 1920-1940 (George Orwell): The Children of Men, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, You Bright and Risen Angels, The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's "1984", Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Atmosphaera Incognita
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0307279901 |
Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
| Author | Peter Pomerantsev |
| ISBN | 1610394550 |
In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0099461099 |
It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
| ISBN | 0140110879 |
In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the streets of San Francisco, a fearsome battle rages. The insects are vying for world domination; the inventors of electricity stand in evil opposition. Bug , a young man, rebels against his own kind and joins...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's "1984"
| Author | Dorian Lynskey |
| ISBN | 0385544057 |
The author has written a study that places George Orwell's 1984 in a variety of contexts: the author's life and times, the book's precursors in the science fiction genre, and its subsequent place in popular culture. Lynskey delves into how Orwell's harrowing Spanish Civil War experiences shaped his...
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”
Who is Charles Manson?
This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 1596069198 |
For more than two decades, Neal Stephenson has been the reigning master of the epic fictional narrative. His vast, intellectually rigorous books have ranged in setting from the distant past (The Baroque Cycle) to the modern era (Reamde) to the remote future (Anathem, Seveneves). But when Stephenson...
