Daddy's
10 best books like Daddy's (Lindsay Hunter): As I Lay Dying, Homesick for Another World, Sing to It: New Stories, Friday Black, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories, The Isle of Youth: Stories, The Watch, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, The Wild Party
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others, the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the...
Homesick for Another World
| Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| ISBN | 0399562885 |
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 1982109114 |
“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...
| Author | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| ISBN | 1328911241 |
In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.
Adjei-Brenyah's...
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
| Author | Etgar Keret |
| ISBN | 1592641059 |
Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English.
Brief, intense, painfully funny,...
| Author | Laura van den Berg |
| ISBN | 0374177236 |
Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience,...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0844669318 |
In this extraordinary fiction debut, Rick Bass establishes himself in the first rank of American writers. Rooted in the creative traditions of the South, his stories introduce us to men who belong— in spirit if not always in fact— to the American outback, to the deserts of Utah, the swamps of Mississippi,...
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 1250223946 |
"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus...
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
| Author | Mahzarin R. Banaji |
| ISBN | 0553804642 |
I know my own mind.
I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.
These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age,...
| Author | Joseph Moncure March |
| ISBN | 0375706437 |
Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0735217920 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
