Animal Crackers

10 best books like Animal Crackers (Hannah Tinti): St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Magic for Beginners, Nineteen Seventy Seven, The Simple Gift, Wise Blood, The Year of the Gadfly, Stranger Things Happen, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing, Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry, Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	0307263983

In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning...

Magic for Beginners

Author	Kelly Link
ISBN	0156031876

The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut, Stranger Things Happen: effervescent blends of quirky humor and pathos that transform stock themes of genre fiction into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy. In "Stone Animals," a house's haunting...

Nineteen Seventy Seven

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427442

The bodies, the corpses, the alleys and the wasteland, the dirty men, the broken women.
Wow, this is stunning. Literally. It's like being bludgeoned over the head by a cascade of bloody and relentless grimness. BUT all this violence, this brutality, this hate and corruption, betrayal and greed...

The Simple Gift

Author	Steven Herrick
ISBN	0689868677

I'm not proud.
I'm sixteen, and soon
to be homeless.
Weary of his life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind. He finds a home in an abandoned freight train outside a small...

Wise Blood

Author	Flannery O'Connor
ISBN	0374530637

Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...

The Year of the Gadfly

Author	Jennifer Miller
ISBN	0547548591

“Do you know what it took for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?”
“Hemlock.”

Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant secret society, Prisom's...

Stranger Things Happen

Author	Kelly Link
ISBN	1931520003

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve...

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Author	Richard Hugo
ISBN	0393309339

Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously...

Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry

Author	Kim Chinquee
ISBN	0979192188

The book is a wonderful debut collection of prose poems and flash fictions, short short stories of beautiful precisions and understated passions. While the bricks with which Chinquee constructs her fictions - failed or failing relationships, childhood friendships, and the intricacies of family...

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

Author	Lynda Barry
ISBN	1770461612

The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable,...

The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

Author	Emma
ISBN	1609809181

A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist.

"The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at...