I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, & Prison Breaks

7 best books like I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, & Prison Breaks (Steve McVicker): Requiem for a Dream, In the Lake of the Woods, Bunnicula, The Lost World, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Madame Doubtfire, My Little Sister Ate One Hare

Requiem for a Dream

Author	Hubert Selby Jr.
ISBN	1560252480

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised...

In the Lake of the Woods

Author

Tim O'Brien

This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the...

Bunnicula

Author	James Howe
ISBN	1416928170

(This review is from 2004.)

Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.

So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...

The Lost World

Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN	0812967259

Move aside, Sherlock…Sir Arthur has conjured a protagonist who's an even more arrogant assbag than you. 

Everyone...the intrepid, the indefatigable, the insufferable Professor G.E. Challenger…


If, like me, you enjoy characters that are gruff, prideful curmudgeonly...

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Author	Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN	0618062416

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.

Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes...

Madame Doubtfire

Author	Anne Fine
ISBN	0140373551

Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will...

My Little Sister Ate One Hare

Author

Bill Grossman

Now I have read a couple of children’s books where the characters in question for some bizarre reason want to eat strange things such as in “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” where the old lady spent most of the book eating various animals she comes across to. Well, “My Little Sister...