Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
10 best books like Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (Geoffrey Wolff): The Topeka School, Men at Arms, Frankissstein: A Love Story, The Swallows, Inland, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, Right After the Weather, Ashenden
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0374277788 |
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right
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| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0141185732 |
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier...
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...
| Author | Lisa Lutz |
| ISBN | 1984818236 |
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.
What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?
It starts with this simple writing prompt...
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720245 |
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.
One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...
What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
| Author | E. Jean Carroll |
| ISBN | 1250215439 |
A darkly funny and very personal attempt to answer the question by America's longest running advice columnist
When E. Jean Carroll—possibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of Ask E. Jean in Elle Magazine — realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed...
| Author | Carol Anshaw |
| ISBN | 1476747792 |
“This timely novel takes on friendship, desire, fear, and vulnerability in one incisive, witty, and powerful package.” —People
“Astonishes with the force of its unexpected beauty.” —The New York Times Book Review
The author of the “graceful and compassionate”...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 0099289709 |
A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and...
| Author | Ariana Reines |
| ISBN | 0986437360 |
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness...
| Author | Selina Shirley Hastings |
| ISBN | 1400061415 |
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning...
| Author | M.M. Kaye |
| ISBN | 0312049994 |
M.M. Kaye’s memories are as beautiful as her descriptive prose in this colorful and wistfully evocative memoir of her youth in India, which to her was always home. The reader will come away with a different view of India during the time of the Raj, and before the Great War. Anything but a political book,...
| Author | John Buchan |
| ISBN | 1842327844 |
When his friend Charles Pitt-Heron vanishes mysteriously, Sir Edward Leithen is at first only mildly concerned. But a series of strange events that follow Pitt-Heron’s disappearance convinces Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society. Their codename is ‘The Power-House’....
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
| Author | Frances Osborne |
| ISBN | 1844084817 |
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off...
Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community,...
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
| Author | Karen Abbott |
| ISBN | 0451498623 |
The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant...
Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up, Lark excels at...
| Author | Alexander Tilney |
| ISBN | 0316450375 |
In the tradition of Prep and Old School, a sharp and evocative portrait of insiders--and outsiders--at an elite boarding school who must face a reality very different from the one they imagined.
St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders....
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
| Author | Nick Hornby |
| ISBN | 0593087348 |
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.
"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New...
