An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge

10 best books like An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge (Richard Zacks): The Raw Shark Texts, I, Elizabeth, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again, Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things, The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy, The Book of General Ignorance, The Storyteller's Secret: How the World's Most Inspiring Leaders Turn Their Passion Into Performance, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

The Raw Shark Texts

Author	Steven Hall
ISBN	1841959111

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of acute memory loss that is a symptom of his severe dissociative disorder. Eric's been in Dr. Randle's care for two years...

I, Elizabeth

Author	Rosalind Miles
ISBN	0609809105

A spellbinding novel about Elizabeth I from the internationally bestselling author of the Guenevere and Tristan and Isolde trilogies.
Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth...

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Author	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	0876856830

Man, I wish you guys could see how banged-up and dog-eared my copy of "You Get So Alone" is. I think that's the only way I can do this collection justice. The poet as an older man lacks the vinegar and vitriol of his younger self, but being eight years from his death certainly infused these poems with the magnetic...

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

Author

Noah Lukeman

The First Five Pages

Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...

mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again

Author	Will Pearson
ISBN	0060568062

Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing...

Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things

Author	Charles Panati
ISBN	0060964197

A good blend of history and speculation. The author sorts by various criteria--origins of superstitions; holidays; customs; inventions and much more!

Many people might just dip into this type of book just looking for certain infomration--but I read it entirely and found the writing well...

The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy

Author	Guy Murchie
ISBN	0395957915

"All life in all worlds" -this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book. In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves into the interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such fields as biology, geology, sociology, mathematics,...

The Book of General Ignorance

Author	John Lloyd
ISBN	0307394913

Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller.

Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science,...

The Storyteller's Secret: How the World's Most Inspiring Leaders Turn Their Passion Into Performance

Author	Carmine Gallo
ISBN	1250071550

(I received an advanced reading copy of this book in return for an honest review)

I loved Carmine Gallo's book Talk like TED, in which he analyzed what made the most successful TED speakers so great. One key element he discovered was that they were great storytellers. The Storyteller's Secret...

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

Author	Ben Folds
ISBN	1984817272

Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore...

Harassment Architecture

Author	Mike Ma
ISBN	1795641495

“At a glance, Mike comes off like a 1980s teen movie bully on downers.” - Playboy Magazine“…Mike Ma bragged about crashing a White House press conference.” - The Huffington Post. Now, you can read his long-awaited first book. Harassment Architecture has been described as an almost plotless...