Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe

9 best books like Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (Andrew Spielman): Make Room! Make Room!, Sweet Salt Air, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together, Girt, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Make Room! Make Room!

Author	Harry Harrison
ISBN	0553564587

Color me happy and more than a little surprised to be decorating this review with as many stars as I am because I went into this novel with pretty subdued expectations. I would say expectations on par with those I hold for the latest cinematic embarassment by Mr. Dickoless Cage. I know that's not very nice,...

Sweet Salt Air

Author	Barbara Delinsky
ISBN	1250007038

Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole's family's island house, but they have since grown apart. A successful travel writer, Charlotte lives on the road, while Nicole, a food blogger, lives in Philadelphia with her surgeon-husband, Julian. When Nicole...

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0316143472

It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. From the shining notorious East Side, When You Are Engulfed in Flames...

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

Author	Bruce Campbell
ISBN	0312291450

Okay, so at least you're interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine.

Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor.

Am I supposed to know this guy? you think...

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Author	Shane Bauer
ISBN	0735223580

A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...

Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author	Erin Lowry
ISBN	0143130404

Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)!
If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping by and take control...

Girt

Author	David Hunt
ISBN	1863956115

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ...

In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.
Girt introduces...

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization

Author	Bryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN	0192807285

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Author	Kerry Hudson
ISBN	1784742457

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns

'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense...