An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition

10 best books like An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition (James Lipton): In the Lake of the Woods, Night Boat to Tangier, The Ghost Bride, 10:04, Oceanic, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Grass Kings, Vol. 2, Be With

In the Lake of the Woods

Author

Tim O'Brien

This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the...

Night Boat to Tangier

Author	Kevin Barry
ISBN	0385540310

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...

The Ghost Bride

Author	Yangsze Choo
ISBN	0062227327

"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride..."

Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound.

Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but...

10:04

Author	Ben Lerner
ISBN	0865478104

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his...

Oceanic

Author	Aimee Nezhukumatathil
ISBN	1556595263

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a scallop, “the ribs / of a silver silo,” and the bright flash...

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Author	Mike Carey
ISBN	1401210074

I enjoyed seeing this depicted graphically. I thought it was an excellent story. Neil wrote this to highlight homelessness I remember he said. It is a topsy turvy world where there is more going on beneath the real world than we know. The magic is under the sewers.

It was interesting to see the...

Goliath

Author	Tom Gauld
ISBN	1770460659

A master of stripped-down, powerful storytelling reworks the David-and-Goliath myth.

Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he would pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest...

You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack

Author	Tom Gauld
ISBN	1770461043

“Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, and Kate Beaton.”—NPR, Best Books of 2013

A new collection from the Guardian and New York Times Magazine cartoonist

The...

Grass Kings, Vol. 2

Author	Matt Kindt
ISBN	1684151813

Following a turf war with a rival town, the three brothers who rule a trailer park kingdom must turn their sights inward to find a killer amongst themselves.

The next chapter in the lives of the Grass Kings - three brothers who rule their own trailer park kingdom outside of the laws of man - begins...

Be With

Author	Forrest Gander
ISBN	0811226050

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical...

Mooncop

Author	Tom Gauld
ISBN	1770462546

"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs...

Grass Kings, Vol. 1

Author	Matt Kindt
ISBN	1684151155

Three brothers who rule their own trailer park kingdom must face off against the sheriff of a neighboring town who wants their territory.

From The New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and artist Tyler Jenkins (Peter Panzerfaust) comes the critically acclaimed rural mystery...