Bad Marie
10 best books like Bad Marie (Marcy Dermansky): Early Work, Trust Exercise, Akin, Red at the Bone, Zoe Letting Go, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Only Ashes Remain, The White Card: A Play, The Girl on the Fridge, Bright
| Author | Andrew Martin |
| ISBN | 0374146128 |
A wry, supersmart, seriocomic first novel from a prodigious talent—a Sentimental Education for our time
For young writers of a certain temperament—if they haven’t had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet—the delusion persists that great writing must...
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 1250309883 |
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0316491993 |
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0525535276 |
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.
As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
| Author | Nora Price |
| ISBN | 1595144668 |
A girl's letters to her best friend reveal two lives derailed by anorexia in this haunting debut that's Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls meets The Sixth Sense.
Zoe knows she doesn’t belong in a hospital—so why is she in one?
Twin Birch isn’t just any hospital. It’s a...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0374280002 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market.
There’s...
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555978398 |
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of
Citizen
The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements,...
| Author | Etgar Keret |
| ISBN | 0374531056 |
A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in Mossad -- such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret's first collections, the ones that...
| Author | Duanwad Pimwana |
| ISBN | 1931883807 |
Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation Prize
When five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told―he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime...
