Expiration Date

7 best books like Expiration Date (Tim Powers): A Night in the Lonesome October, The Downstairs Girl, Green Mansions, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, Regeneration, A Million Nightingales, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

A Night in the Lonesome October

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380771411

Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018

A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.

First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...

The Downstairs Girl

Author

Stacey Lee

By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she...

Green Mansions

Author	W.H. Hudson
ISBN	0192832883

A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them...

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

Author	Crystal Zevon
ISBN	0060763450

When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable...

Regeneration

Author	Julie E. Czerneda
ISBN	0756404118

With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can biologists Mackenzie Connor and Emily Mamami solve...

A Million Nightingales

Author

Susan Straight

From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated...

In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Author	Mary Beth Norton
ISBN	0375706909

Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.

In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian...