George Bush, Dark Prince of Love
10 best books like George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (Lydia Millet): The Little Stranger, The Stepford Wives, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, O Pioneers!, The Elephant Vanishes, The Chronicles of Amber, Mrs. Caliban, Mad Shadows, Patterns of Childhood, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is...
| Author | Ira Levin |
| ISBN | 0060080841 |
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
At once a masterpiece of psychological...
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
| Author | Eric Weiner |
| ISBN | 0446580260 |
Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679743626 |
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people...
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 1857987268 |
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving...
| Author | Rachel Ingalls |
| ISBN | 0811226697 |
In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research… Reviewers have compared Rachel...
| Author | Marie-Claire Blais |
| ISBN | 0771098677 |
A harrowing pathology of the soul, Mad Shadows centres on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and malicious sister, Isabelle-Marie; and Louise, their vain and uncomprehending mother. These characters inhabit an amoral universe where beauty reflects no truth and...
| Author | Christa Wolf |
| ISBN | 0374518440 |
I cried while reading this novel. Tears just kept flowing silently, and there was nothing I could do about it.
If you want to know what totalitarian states do to children, this novel will tell you, - without sentimentality, without blame or anger, without self-pity.
For all those emotions...
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
| Author | Leonard Shlain |
| ISBN | 0140196013 |
This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate...
