And Also Sharks
10 best books like And Also Sharks (Jessica Westhead): Black Card, Vacuum in the Dark, Yiddish for Pirates, The Court of the Air, Ayako, Moon of the Crusted Snow, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir, Trustee from the Toolroom, Virgin Soul, Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales about My Life
With dark humor, Chris L. Terry’s Black Card is an uncompromising examination of American identity. In an effort to be “black enough,” a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call “black stuff.” After...
| Author | Jen Beagin |
| ISBN | 1501182145 |
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for...
| Author | Gary Barwin |
| ISBN | 0345815513 |
Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion.
From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking...
| Author | Stephen Hunt |
| ISBN | 0007232187 |
When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack. For Molly carries...
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1934287512 |
Long considered as one of Osamu Tezuka’s most political narratives, Ayako is also considered to be one of his most challenging as it defies the conventions of his manga by utilizing a completely original cast and relying solely on historical drama to drive the plot. Ayako, pulls no punches, and...
| Author | Waubgeshig Rice |
| ISBN | 1770414002 |
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members...
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 1627793445 |
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the...
| Author | Nevil Shute |
| ISBN | 1842323016 |
This was such a pleasure to read. It is a simple story about an uncomplicated man who is required to perform some difficult tasks. He has to step way beyond his comfort zone and in doing so discovers his own inner strengths. Even better, it becomes a bit of a fairy story as he discovers he has friends he never...
| Author | Judy Juanita |
| ISBN | 0670026581 |
From a lauded poet and playwright, a novel of a young woman's life with the Black Panthers in 1960s San Francisco
At first glance, Geniece’s story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule...
| Author | Larry Hagman |
| ISBN | 0743221818 |
On November 21, 1980, over 350 million people worldwide tuned in to find out: "Who shot J.R.?"In portraying the scheming, ruthless J.R. in "Dallas" during its entire run, from 1978 to 1991, Larry Hagman reached a level of fame and recognition that is rare, if not unique. Now the man behind J.R. tells his...
L'Arabe du futur 3 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1985-1987
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730943 |
Dans le premier tome publié en 2014 et qui couvre la période 1978-1984, le petit Riad est ballotté, de sa naissance à ses six ans, entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Le deuxième tome, paru en 2015, raconte sa première année d’école en Syrie (1984-1985).
Dans ce troisième...
All in All: An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage
| Author | Stacy Keach |
| ISBN | 0762791454 |
Stacy Keach is known for movie roles like Fat City and American History X and the television series Titus, and of course Mike Hammer, but he's also revered in the industry as a serious actor who's passionate about his craft. In his long, impressive career, he has been hailed as America's finest classical...
The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart
Readers of Adam Silvera (They Both Die at the End) and Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X) will pull out the tissues for this tender, quirky story of one seventeen-year-old boy's journey through first love and first heartbreak, guided by his personal hero, Oscar Wilde.
Words have always been more...
| Author | Jen Beagin |
| ISBN | 1501183931 |
Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner and “one of the freshest voices I've read in years—funny, wise, whip-smart and compassionate” (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins), about a cleaning lady on a quest for self-acceptance...
| Author | Paul Doiron |
| ISBN | 1250033934 |
On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found senselessly butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal rights activist who is buying up huge parcels of timber land to create a new national park.
What...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730544 |
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.
Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman
| Author | A.E. Hotchner |
| ISBN | 0385532334 |
Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.
A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project...
Easy Street: The Hard Way
| Author | Ron Perlman |
| ISBN | 0306823446 |
The candid, hilarious, and inspiring memoir of the iconic star of Beauty and the Beast,the Hellboy movies,and Sons of Anarchy.
A classically trained actor who cut his teeth in the East Village's Off-Broadway scene, Ron Perlman—a Golden Globe winner (Beauty and the Beast) with starring...
