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9 best books like Murder (John Steinbeck): Girl, Woman, Other, Mythologies, Shackleton's Stowaway, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, The Knife That Killed Me, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

Girl, Woman, Other
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
ISBN0241364906
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
Mythologies
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374521506
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way...
Shackleton's Stowaway
AuthorVictoria McKernan
ISBN0375826912
On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one.

Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in...
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
ISBN0330485245
Insightful, but a little too disjointed and self-indulgent, not to mention grumpy. Naipaul's famous scorn for other writers' work is on full display here, to the extent that one performs a double take upon seeing a stray word of praise [he heartily approves of Madame Bovary though, thankfully, but...
The Knife That Killed Me
AuthorAnthony McGowan
ISBN0385738226
Paul Vanderman could be at any normal high school where bullies, girls, and annoying teachers are just part of life. But “normal” doesn’t apply when it comes to the school’s biggest bully, Roth—a twisted and threatening thug with an evil agenda.

When Paul ends up delivering a message...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
AuthorErnest Hemingway
4★
“No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.”

Harry’s dying. Gangrene. He’s not happy about it, but he’s resigned to it...
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
AuthorEric Schmidt
ISBN0062839276
This book fails both as a biography and as a playbook. It's thin on details and the rose-coloured lens of Bill makes it read more like a eulogy.

Evidence would suggest that Bill Campbell was an excellent coach. This book does not capture his playbook in a meaningful way and I learned very little.

It’s...
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
AuthorErnest Hemingway
A lion, symbol of courage and a significant connection between a man and his wife. I was not too fond of any of the characters of this story but I have to admit something: I don't remember being so repelled by a female character since Cinderella's stepmother. Well, in the name of debatable maturity, I am...
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
AuthorLisa Sanders
ISBN0593136632
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections...
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