How I Became a Famous Novelist
10 best books like How I Became a Famous Novelist (Steve Hely): We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, We Learn Nothing, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Apathy and Other Small Victories, A Virtuous Woman, Taipei, From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic, 101 Dialogues, Sketches and Skits: Instant Theatre for Teens and Tweens, Neuvěřitelné příhody žáků Kopyta a Mňouka
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?
Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous....
| Author | Tim Kreider |
| ISBN | 1439198705 |
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn’t change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don’t even...
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0743219554 |
This book, which was first published in 1972, reads like it was written in 1947, if not earlier. It's very much in the tradition of English mysteries that were set in country houses in the years between the two world wars, and there's nothing in the book to suggest the time period in which it is supposed to...
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
| Author | David E. Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0520215621 |
Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong—more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock...
| Author | Paul Neilan |
| ISBN | 0312351747 |
The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely...
| Author | Kaye Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0375703063 |
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked...
| Author | Tao Lin |
| ISBN | 0307950174 |
Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into...
From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic
| Author | Thomas Canby |
| ISBN | 1559635177 |
National Geographic has been called a window on the world and a passport to adventure. Each month an estimated forty million people in 190 countries open its pages and are transported to exotic realms that delight the eye and mind. Such widespread renown gives the magazine's writers an almost magical...
101 Dialogues, Sketches and Skits: Instant Theatre for Teens and Tweens
| Author | Paul Rooyackers |
| ISBN | 0897936787 |
Originally written for drama teachers working with students aged 9 to 18, this collection of short, snappy theater dialogues makes the perfect short break activity in any classroom, camp, or youth group situation. Students get much more out of these dialogues than just acting practice: they increase...
Neuvěřitelné příhody žáků Kopyta a Mňouka
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
| Author | Tim Kreider |
| ISBN | 1476738998 |
*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*
The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.
Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s...
