Darjeeling
9 best books like Darjeeling (Bharti Kirchner): The Other Americans, Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain, The Burning Wire, Little Hands Clapping, The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West, Mistress, The Ungrateful Refugee, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Devil's Feather
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one...
Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain
| Author | Sarah Vallance |
| ISBN | 1542043026 |
The searing, wry memoir about a woman’s fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury.
When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she’s walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s led from work to...
| Author | Jeffery Deaver |
| ISBN | 1439156336 |
Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear.
The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing...
| Author | Dan Rhodes |
| ISBN | 1847675298 |
In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by night he enjoys the sound of silence, broken by the occasional crunch of a spider between his blackened teeth. Little Hands Clapping brings together the Old Man with the...
The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West
| Author | Imran Ahmad |
| ISBN | 1455508497 |
Both deliciously funny and deeply insightful, THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN is a beguiling multi-layered memoir that has touched the hearts of readers all over the world. At the age of one, Imran Ahmad moved from Pakistan to London, growing up torn between his Islamic identity and his desire to embrace the...
| Author | Anita Nair |
| ISBN | 0312349475 |
When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala, India to meet Koman, Radha's uncle and a famous dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man with his cello and his incessant...
| Author | Dina Nayeri |
| ISBN | 1948226421 |
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
"Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” ―The New York Times Book Review
"Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those...
The Brightest Star in the Sky
| Author | Marian Keyes |
| ISBN | 0718149866 |
Welcome to 66 Star Street . . . In the top-floor flat lives music exec Katie. She spends her days fighting off has-been rock stars and wondering how much cheesecake you'd need to eat yourself to death. Below her, a pair of muscular Poles share with a streetwise cabbie named Lydia, who has a sharp tongue,...
| Author | Minette Walters |
| ISBN | 0307264629 |
"In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent Connie Burns suspects a British mercenary: a man who seems to turn up in every war-torn corner of Africa, whose reputation for violence and brutality is well-founded and widely known. Connie's...
