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10 best books like Butterfly Weed (Donald Harington): Big Bad Love, Blood and Grits, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, The Tale of Applebeck Orchard, Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, A Prayer for the Dying, Amateurs, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, The Sea Came in at Midnight, The Book of Leviathan

Big Bad Love
AuthorLarry Brown
ISBN0679734910
The whole world seemed to be trying to be decent, and I seemed an indecent thing in it.*


This one was recommended to me by my pal John, who described it as "... a two evening read filled with social misfits." Though I spend most of my evenings surrounded by social misfits, I decided to give a read...
Blood and Grits
AuthorHarry Crews
ISBN0060914599
17 essays written by fiction author Crews - all published in Playboy and Esquire in the early '70s - ranging widely in topic from bio sketches of Charles Bronson and William Blake to life as a carny or independent trucker. Crews inserts himself as a major character in all of these essays; his upbringing...
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
AuthorDaniel Wallace
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...
The Tale of Applebeck Orchard
AuthorSusan Wittig Albert
ISBN0425229777
The latest delightful tale in Albert's Beatrix Potter series.

Out of spite for having his haystacks burnt, Mr. Harmsworth barricades a common path through his orchard-and Tabitha Twitchet and her Cat Council want answers. Reliable witnesses, including some Big Folk, say the arson was the...
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
Welcome to the fairy-tale world where Hansel and Gretel are horrible children who deserve to be baked and where Beauty is dismayed when her beloved Beast turns human. In the realm of the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, when the sky really does fall, Chicken Little becomes the leader of a religious...
A Prayer for the Dying
AuthorStewart O'Nan
ISBN0312255012
this book is like boiling milk. at first, everything is nice and serene - a calm pool of pure silken whiteness. and then it starts to shimmer a little bit and you know things are happening, and you start to notice little bloopy bits of activity, but you don't want to stir it just yet. steam starts to rise from...
Amateurs
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0374103798
322. Amateurs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post,...
Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
AuthorVance Randolph
ISBN0252013646
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman,...
The Sea Came in at Midnight
AuthorSteve Erickson
ISBN0380806584
God invented millennia for writers like Steve Erickson. Erickson's previous books have buried L.A.'s freeways in sand, set bonfires in Paris streets, and hitched along for the 1996 presidential campaign. In terms of madness, doom, and sheer human folly, what could possibly be left? Plenty, as it...
The Book of Leviathan
AuthorPeter Blegvad
ISBN1585670987
Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet...
The Zoo Where You're Fed to God
AuthorMichael Ventura
ISBN0671892223
i was just reading my delight of a book, readers' advisory service in the public library, and the chapter i was reading was the one on "appeal". basically, appeal is how you describe a book to a patron based on its salient elements: pacing, characterization, story line, frame/tone, and style. the idea...
The Lost Scrapbook
AuthorEvan Dara
ISBN1573660388
It may be the defining irony of our time: just as we are coming to recognize our shared destiny and necessary interdependence, our culture seems to be fracturing along every fault line available to it. The Lost Scrapbook is a novel that passionately captures the contradictory richness of our historical...
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
AuthorGeorge Washington Cable
ISBN0140433228
A reread, this time on my Kindle via a Gutenberg download: I highlighted tons of passages to share, along with some non-English words to look up. I took the Kindle on a trip, reading from it on the plane, both ways. At home, the night after my return, at about the 80% mark, all my highlighting had mysteriously...
George And Rue
AuthorGeorge Elliott Clarke
ISBN0006485693
It was, by all accounts, a slug-ugly crime. Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer. It was 1949, and the two siblings, part Mi'kmaq and part African, were both hanged for the killing. Those facts are also skeletons in George...
A Drama in Muslin
AuthorGeorge Moore
ISBN0861400569
mmokay - i put up the publishers description, and now i write a review so jen can use this in her book club. i read this in college so my details are not perfect, but i remember loving it. it's about mothers trying to get their daughters married, and the lengths they will go to to accomplish this. it's like an...
The Conversion of the Jews
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0886825067
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them...
Drowning Rose
AuthorMarika Cobbold
It is winter in London. Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A Museum, is leaving work when she receives an unexpected phone call. Standing in the haze of the Christmas lights she hears a voice which draws her back twenty-five years - to the tragic death of her best friend. But why does Rose's...
Drunk with Love
AuthorEllen Gilchrist
ISBN0316313149
From one of our most accomplished short story writers, "Drunk with Love" is a deeply compelling collection full of laughter and tears, pathos and tender humor. In these thirteen stories we come to know some of Ellen Gilchrist's most memorable characters: Rhoda Manning, a precocious annd impetuous...
Instant Love: Fiction
AuthorJami Attenberg
ISBN0307337839
“We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It’s enough to make you give up entirely.” —from Instant Love


But we don’t give up. We keep trying. We’re either too stupid to learn from our mistakes...
The Seventh Well: A Novel
AuthorFred Wander
ISBN0393065383
He grew up on the street, a high school dropout. In 1938 he left his mother and sister behind in Vienna and fled on foot to France, where later he was put on a train to Auschwitz. Transported from camp to camp, Fred Wander was haunted for twenty-five years by the crystalline, episodic stories that chronicle...
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