Red Strangers

6 best books like Red Strangers (Elspeth Huxley): Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, The Last Policeman, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Flynn

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Author	Pete Buttigieg
ISBN	1631494368

Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...

The Last Policeman

Author	Ben H. Winters
ISBN	1594745765

What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die soon, anyway?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There's no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.
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"The Last Policeman "presents a fascinating...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Author	Howard Pyle
ISBN	1595406557

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles traditional material into a coherent...

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome, introducing the science fiction...

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Author

Richard H. Thaler

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to...

Flynn

Author	Gregory McDonald
ISBN	0375713573

Ever since F.X. Flynn made his first appearance in Confess, Fletch, matching wits with the inimitable Irwin Fletcher, he has befuddled, infuriated, and amazed his colleagues on the Boston Police force while in pursuit of blackmailers, murderers, embezzlers, politicians, and, occasionally, his...