An Unfinished Season
10 best books like An Unfinished Season (Ward Just): What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Tree of Smoke, Train Dreams, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, War Trash, Lost and Wanted, The March, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, American Woman, World of Trouble
| Author | Nathan Englander |
| ISBN | 0307958701 |
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
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| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0374279128 |
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 1250007658 |
Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles...
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
| Author | Amanda Ripley |
| ISBN | 1451654421 |
Through the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world’s top-notch public high schools, an investigative reporter explains how these systems cultivate the “smartest” kids on the planet.
America has long compared its students to top-performing...
| Author | Ha Jin |
| ISBN | 1400075793 |
Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s “volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of...
| Author | Nell Freudenberger |
| ISBN | 0385352689 |
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.'
Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 0812976150 |
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained...
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
| Author | Jennifer Senior |
| ISBN | 0062072226 |
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?
"All Joy and No Fun is an indispensable map for a journey that most of us take without one. Brilliant, funny, and...
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 0060542225 |
Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," naming it one of the ten best books of the year....
| Author | Ben H. Winters |
| ISBN | 1594746850 |
There are just 14 days until a deadly asteroid hits the planet, and America has fallen into chaos. Citizens have barricaded themselves inside basements, emergency shelters, and big-box retail stores. Cash is worthless; bottled water is valuable beyond measure. All over the world, everyone is bracing...
