Beggars of Life
9 best books like Beggars of Life (Jim Tully): Lost Children Archive, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Frankissstein: A Love Story, The Dharma Bums, Soldier, Ask Not, Cause for Alarm, The Canary Murder Case, The Prince Commands, Pimp: The Story of My Life
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
| Author | Elif Shafak |
| ISBN | 0241293863 |
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 1473563259 |
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0722129521 |
Ohhhh, potential-squandering frustration...thy name is The Childe Cycle!!!
Gordon Dickson’s superbly premised, yet underachieving Childe Cycle has been a source of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-whitening frustration for me. This disappointing, expectation larceny began while...
| Author | Eric Ambler |
| ISBN | 0375726748 |
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He’s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he’ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough...
| Author | S.S. Van Dine |
| ISBN | 0684164043 |
1927. Illustrated with scenes from the Paramount photoplay. Around 1925 Willard Huntington Wright, critic and writer, underwent a long illness. As part of his convalescence he wrote The Benson Murder Case, in which he created the character of Philo Vance, a master sleuth. So that the book would not...
Raised in America, Michael Karl learns at eighteen that he is heir to the throne of Morvania, a Balkan kingdom threatened by revolution and by the sinister Werewolf, a mountain marauder of more than human reputation whose followers may be less than human.
The moment he arrives in Morvania,...
Pimp: The Story of My Life
| Author | Iceberg Slim |
| ISBN | 0862415934 |
“A pimp is happy when his whores giggle. He knows they are still asleep...all whores have one thing in common just like the chumps humping for the white boss. It thrills ‘em when the pimp makes mistakes. They watch and wait for his downfall.
A pimp is the loneliest bastard on Earth. He’s...
