Reading My Father
10 best books like Reading My Father (Alexandra Styron): Dawn, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared, Clean, A. Lincoln, Very Nice, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, Day, Losing Mum and Pup, Elegy for Iris
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0809037726 |
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death...
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0060839783 |
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857,...
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
| Author | Alice Ozma |
| ISBN | 0446583774 |
When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundredth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what...
| Author | Juno Dawson |
| ISBN | 1786540363 |
I can feel it swimming through my veins like glitter ... it's liquid gold.
When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she's hit rock bottom.
She's wrong. Rock bottom is when she's forced into an exclusive rehab facility.
From there, the only way is up for Lexi...
| Author | Ronald C. White Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400064996 |
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD
Everyone wants to define the man who...
| Author | Marcy Dermansky |
| ISBN | 0525655638 |
A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous American novelist who is seduced by them both.
Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but...
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
| Author | William Styron |
| ISBN | 0679736395 |
This very small volume was not an easy read. Mr. Styron eases us into his own story by relating stories of other writers and artists who experienced deep depression. Some made it through but most did not. His stories are liberally laced with a depth of understanding that he acknowledged could only come...
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0809023091 |
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the...
| Author | Christopher Buckley |
| ISBN | 0446540943 |
In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their...
| Author | John Bayley |
| ISBN | 0312421117 |
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral...
Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir
| Author | Kaylie Jones |
| ISBN | 0061778702 |
In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her...
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0307961842 |
Translated by Marion Wiesel
A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his...
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0297859714 |
Memoir of a marriage between two people at the top of the literary game who had spouses, six children between them when they met, but cared more for each other than them. After their first meeting Pinter said to the author, "Must you go?" and the lust became an affair became marriage. 33 years of being in...
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0374521409 |
The first three works by Elie Wiesel are here brought together in one volume, where the terrifying truth of their vision, the stunning simplicity of their art, and the power of their unity achieve epic dimensions.
Night, first published in 1960, is Wiesel's true account of spiritual and national...
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
| Author | Joshua M. Greene |
| ISBN | 0684865262 |
Witness comes from the interviews of many Holocaust survivors and what they went through during this horrific time in history. Most of the interviews were given in the 1980s. Each person talks of their experiences,before the Holocaust, when it was starting, during the War, and afterwards. The chapter...
| Author | Catherine Gildiner |
| ISBN | 0307398226 |
Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960s with the same wit, candour and exhilarating storytelling that has made Too Close to the Falls a modern classic.
When Cathy McClure is thirteen years old, her parents make the bold decision to move to suburban Buffalo in...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0141186976 |
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These...
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
| Author | Kati Marton |
| ISBN | 1416586121 |
"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love aff airs, betrayals inside the family...
