I Am an Executioner: Love Stories

10 best books like I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (Rajesh Parameswaran): Call Me Zebra, Salvage the Bones, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, A Guide to Being Born: Stories, I Want to Show You More, Schroder, The Code of the Woosters, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, The Middlesteins, Best Bear Ever!: A Little Year of Liz Climo

Call Me Zebra

Author	Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
ISBN	0544944607

A feisty heroine’s quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature—even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love.
 
Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn’t fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in...

Salvage the Bones

Author	Jesmyn Ward
ISBN	1608195228

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers...

Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

Author	Bill Geist
ISBN	1538729806

Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation,...

A Guide to Being Born: Stories

Author	Ramona Ausubel
ISBN	1594487952

Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.

Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016, combines the otherworldly...

I Want to Show You More

Author

Jamie Quatro

Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.

The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in I Want to Show You More are about lives stretched between spirituality...

Schroder

Author	Amity Gaige
ISBN	1455512133

Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.

Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years...

The Code of the Woosters

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	0393339815

No one weaves a plot like Wodehouse. Also, if you have a cow creamer, guard it with your life.

The 2012 re-read:
Aunt Dahlia dispatches Bertie to Totleigh Towers to purlorn a silver cow creamer coveted by his uncle Tom from Sir Watkyn Basset. Unfortunately, Bertie has his work cut out for...

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Author	Kara Cooney
ISBN	1426219776

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.

Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...

The Middlesteins

Author	Jami Attenberg
ISBN	1455507199

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't...

Best Bear Ever!: A Little Year of Liz Climo

Author	Liz Climo
ISBN	0762463627

Come spend some time in Liz Climo's world! The artist and popular blogger returns with another collection of her comics--this time following the seasons with her most beloved characters.

Fans love Liz Climo's charmingly funny animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World...