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10 best books like Narrow Rooms (James Purdy): Armageddon's Children, First King of Shannara, Leading Men, The First Circle, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold, The Scions of Shannara, The Black Unicorn, Running with the Demon, The Loved One, The Elf Queen of Shannara

Armageddon's Children
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN0345484088
Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddon’s Children is a new creation–the perfect opportunity for readers...
First King of Shannara
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857236556
There has been a fair amount of criticism floating around against The Sword of Shannara for drawing too many parallels with The Lord of The Rings. Much of this I felt was unfounded. I love The Lord of The Rings and I love the Shannara series. They're not the same, folks. Any resemblances end with the first...
Leading Men
AuthorChristopher Castellani
ISBN0525559051
An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy

In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren,...
The First Circle
AuthorAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN0810115905
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.

At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor...
Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857232569
Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin....
The Scions of Shannara
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857230752
I need a way to rate the book and then a way to separately rate the edition I got. I have the audio I got from OverDrive and the gain is so low that with the recording turned up all the way, my speakers turned up all the way and going into my computers audio controls and jacking them up all the way I could barely hear...
The Black Unicorn
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857231082
The King of Landover has had his identity stolen by an evil wizard! Everyone believes the wizard to be Ben Holiday, the King, and Ben Holiday appears to them as a stranger. He is cast out of his castle by his friends. Thus begins a journey searching for the woman, Willow, who in turn is on a journey looking...
Running with the Demon
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN0345379624
Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing less than revitalize...
The Loved One
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
ISBN0141184248
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the...
The Elf Queen of Shannara
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857238273
"Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren.
It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one...
I Remember
AuthorJoe Brainard
ISBN0140245219
If there could be an ideal task in creative writing it is this one:
write a story or a poem where every sentence begins "I remember" and tell the truth.

The lesson here is simple: the more intimate is your confessions, the more connection they establish, the more power they generate, the more...
Talking to Strange Men
AuthorRuth Rendell
ISBN0345351746
I read this because I was in a mood for some good classic mystery novel. Unfortunately, it was neither of those things.

First of all, I should've picked something American, as I find all mid-sized English towns dreary, and can hardly ever muster any enthusiasm for books taking place in mid-sized...
When Darkness Loves Us
AuthorElizabeth Engstrom
ISBN0688041752
Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the...
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