King of Morning, Queen of Day

7 best books like King of Morning, Queen of Day (Ian McDonald): Foucault's Pendulum, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, An Unkindness of Magicians, An Illusion of Thieves, Beauty, Appelez-moi Nathan

Foucault's Pendulum

Author

Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Author	David Foster Wallace
ISBN	0316925284

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music

Author

Mark Zwonitzer

The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music.

Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than...

An Unkindness of Magicians

Author	Kat Howard
ISBN	1481451219

There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.

In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for...

An Illusion of Thieves

Author

Cate Glass

In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence.

Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic,...

Beauty

Author	Sheri S. Tepper
ISBN	0553295276

With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer. Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass -- a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist -- turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable.

Drawing...

Appelez-moi Nathan

Author	Catherine Castro
ISBN	2228921629

¡Qué maravilla de libro y qué pena me da que no sea todo lo conocido que se merece!
Es una novela gráfica con contenido muy sensible y duro, pero totalmente necesaria e impactante, ya que aunque toda ayuda es poca para visibilizar al colectivo trans, sin duda este libro va a ayudar a cada persona...