Hanging Out with the Dream King

10 best books like Hanging Out with the Dream King (Joseph McCabe): Pashmina, Stargazing, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions, Because, Blueberry Girl, Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway, Beautiful Darkness, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, The Neil Gaiman Reader

Pashmina

Author	Nidhi Chanani
ISBN	1626720878

Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions--the topic of India is permanently closed.

For Pri,...

Stargazing

Author

Jen Wang

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.

When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Author	Neil Gaiman
ISBN	0380789027

In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift...

Because

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	1368019013

I knew Mo Willems wrote good books, but they can also be beautiful. I love this book so much. It is dear to me. I think any person who has heard a piece of music and loved it so much that it changed your life in that moment and your life was set on a creative path will understand this story. It is fantastic. I hope...

Blueberry Girl

Author	Neil Gaiman
ISBN	0060838086

This is a prayer for a blueberry girl . . .

A much-loved baby grows into a young woman: brave, adventurous, and lucky. Exploring, traveling, bathed in sunshine, surrounded by the wonders of the world. What every new parent or parent-to-be dreams of for her child, what every girl dreams of for...

Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway

Author	Mike Carey
ISBN	1563897334

From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell, is unexpectedly called back into action when he receives a mission from Heaven. Given free reign to use any means necessary, Lucifer is promised a prize of his own choosing if he fulfills this holy request. But once he completes...

Beautiful Darkness

Author	Fabien Vehlmann
ISBN	1770461299

Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...

The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

Author	Stephen Collins
ISBN	0224096281

The job of the skin is to keep things in.

On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.

Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable......

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Author

Austin Kleon

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting...

The Neil Gaiman Reader

Author	Darrell Schweitzer
ISBN	0809556375

Neil Gaiman's talent is so vast that any exploration of his work can only be described as a beginning. Here is one such beginning, an examination of the creative genius being The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and so much more. His prose fiction has achieved enormous acclaim and popularity. Now leading...

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Author	Austin Kleon
ISBN	1523506644

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...

The Birds and Other Plays

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0140449515

Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein.

The...