Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
8 best books like Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading (Steven Gilbar): A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Vengeance in Death, Ceremony in Death, Selected Poems, Mayhem, Welcome to My Country, Who I Am and What I Want
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0151365040 |
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0312890206 |
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers.
Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an...
| Author | J.D. Robb |
| ISBN | 0749934131 |
He is an expert with the latest technology...a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit--always solved moments too late to save his victims' lives.Police lieutenant Eve Dallas...
| Author | J.D. Robb |
| ISBN | 0749934123 |
Even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard...
Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed...
| Author | Galway Kinnell |
| ISBN | 0395320461 |
Did you know Galway Kinnell was active in the Civil Rights movement, jailed in Louisiana for his role in voter registration activities? I didn't know that until I read the excerpts from Kinnell's long poem "The Last River" that are included in this 1982 compilation. "The Last River" is, interestingly,...
| Author | Sigrid Rausing |
| ISBN | 0451493125 |
A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family.
In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines....
| Author | Lauren Slater |
| ISBN | 0385487398 |
Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place—until you read Welcome...
| Author | David Shrigley |
| ISBN | 0811855309 |
Funny, urgent, bizarre, and honestpop artist David Shrigley's darkly hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have earned him a growing legion of fans around the world. In this mock autobiographical collection his mischievous drawings capture life's anxieties and ambitions from the mundane to...
