How to Mellify a Corpse: and Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition

6 best books like How to Mellify a Corpse: and Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition (Vicki León): Trainspotting, The House of the Dead, The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo's Notebooks, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918, Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

Trainspotting

Author	Irvine Welsh
ISBN	0099465892

The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food...

The House of the Dead

Author	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN	0486434095

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...

The Basketball Diaries

Author

Jim Carroll

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...

Leonardo's Notebooks

Author	Leonardo da Vinci
ISBN	1579124577

An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller.



Leonardo da Vinci—artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man—is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless...

Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

Author

Gilles Néret

Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponent

Gustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly...

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

Author	Jann S. Wenner
ISBN	0316005274

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his singular and provocative style challenged...