Bang Crunch
10 best books like Bang Crunch (Neil Smith): Water Shall Refuse Them, Black Card, Bucky F*cking Dent, Vacuum in the Dark, Very Nice, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, Next Year, for Sure, And Also Sharks, Never the Bride
| Author | Lucie McKnight Hardy |
| ISBN | 1911585568 |
The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn't bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft -...
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 | David Duchovny |
| ISBN | 0374110425 |
Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the...
| 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 | Marcy Dermansky |
| ISBN | 0525655638 |
A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous American novelist who is seduced by them both.
Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but...
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0143194798 |
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows...
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
From the author of Big Fish comes this haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the Negro Magician.
In the middle of a dusty Southern...
| Author | Zoey Leigh Peterson |
| ISBN | 0385686773 |
In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love.
After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would...
| Author | Jessica Westhead |
| ISBN | 1770860037 |
Finalist for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award A 2011 Globe and Mail Top 100 book One of Kobo's Best Ebooks of 2011 The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed. A disgruntled follower of a self-esteem blog posts a rambling...
| Author | Paul Magrs |
| ISBN | 0755332881 |
Brenda has had a long and eventful life and she has come to Whitby to run a B&B in search of some peace and quiet. She and her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for tea at the Walrus and the Carpenter or dinner at Cod Almighty and keeping their eyes open for any of the mysterious goings...
| 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...
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...
| 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...
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...
| Author | Anakana Schofield |
| ISBN | 1771960345 |
Martin John is not keen on P words. He isolates P words from the newspapers into long lists. For you, so you know he's kept busy, so you don't have to worry he might be beside you or following you or thinking about your body parts. So you don't have to worry about what else he has been thinking about.
From...
| Author | Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard |
La faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal est le dépotoir de l’humanité. Tu le sais : t’en es le déchet cardinal. Tu viens de commencer ta première session, mais y a pas une minute à perdre : si tu veux un beau poste en finissant faudra un beau stage au Barreau et si tu veux un beau stage...
